I'm just back in the US from four days and five plays at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario. Among the works we saw were plays by Lope de Vega, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, and ... oh yeah, William Shakespeare.
I have lost count of the number of times I've been to Stratford; I started going in 1970 and have been going practically every year since; it's one of the few times in the year when I get to assume my secret identity as a theatre scholar.
I wrote reviews of some of the plays we saw over at Bark Bark Woof Woof, and you can check them out at your leisure:
- Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega.
- A double bill of one-acts; Hughie by Eugene O'Neill and Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, both starring Brian Dennehy.
- Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw, starring Christopher Plummer.
If you have the means and the opportunity, get to Stratford. It's a great town, a great festival, there are ways to do it on the cheap, and you'll get all the jokes in Slings and Arrows.
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