The festival’s artistic director Antoni Cimolino hopes the roster of 12 productions represents a renewed zeal for adventure
The Diviners, a story about a dysfunctional, lottery-winning Jamaican-Canadian family, loosely inspired by Eugene O’Neill’s, about Arthur Miller’s 1983 production of“Arthur Miller went to the other side of the world and had to ask himself what exactly it meant to be an American,” Cimolino said.and others speak to fresh directions and departures from past assumptions, Cimolino said.
Where Stratford and the rest of the theatre industry wants to go is back to full attendance. In 2022, theatre-lovers returned to Stratford at about two-thirds of prepandemic levels. This year, the festival budgeted for an increase to 85 per cent of traditional numbers – some half a million people annually – but are pleased to see attendance at approximately 90 per cent.
“It’s coming back, but we still have a bit of a journey to go,” Cimolino said. “And we’re not going to settle for 90 or 100 per cent – we want 125 per cent of what we were.”; Dion Boucicault’s comedyMost of Stratford’s 2023 productions (including
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