Antoni Cimolino, newly named artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, today announced the festival's 2013 playbill. It includes four of the better known plays by Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello and Measure for Measure – as well as two musicals: Fiddler on the Roof and The Who's Tommy. The latter will be directed by Des McAnuff, who won a Tony in 1993 for his direction of a revival of the show.
Other plays on the roster are Waiting for Godot, Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward, Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller and The Three Musketeers, adapted by Cambridge professor Peter Raby. There are two Canadian plays in the season; one is the intriguing Taking Shakespeare by John Murrell, about two men at a loose end who are unexpectedly brought together by William Shakespeare. It will premiere in January 2013 at One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre's High Performance Rodeo in Calgary. The second is the world premiere of The Thrill by Judith Thompson, a Stratford Festival commission.
Photo: Antoni Cimolino, courtesy of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Looks outstanding!!
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