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Offstage, Onstage: Inside the Stratford Festival
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Shakespeare is a playwright, as Ben Johnson said, not for an age, but for all time.(It) is the principle upon which this festival operates. We're not a museum or an antique shop, we're an artist's studio where we create new works of art each season.
Richard Monette, Artistic Director, Stratford
In OFFSTAGE ONSTAGE: Inside The Stratford Festival, cameras go backstage during an entire season to capture the creative spirit at the heart of a treasured Canadian theatre company.
For five decades, the Festival's stage has been home to the world's great plays and performers. Award-winning director John N. Smith ( The Boys of St. Vincent), given unprecedented access to the backstage area, offers a fascinating look at the personalities and the production process behind live theatre performance.
Peek into William Hutt's dressing room as he does his vocal warm-ups before Twelfth Night. Watch Martha Henry command the stage in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Observe an up-and-coming generation of young performers who learn from the masters. From artistic director to vocal coach, meet the dozens of artists, craftspeople and technicians who reveal their secrets, from shoemaking, sword fighting and sound effects to make-up and mechanical monkeys.
Join us behind the scenes of Canada's premier classical theatre institution and discover the love for the stage that drives this artistic company.
2002, 83 min
