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A Cosmos of Creativity Shakespeare lies at the centre of our dramatic universe. Here at Stratford, we celebrate him in our theatres by honouring honouring his text and by by placing it in the context of the work of his predecessors, contemporaries and successors, so we can better understand his breathtaking achievement. In doing so, we range freely through the best and most enduring works of the dramatic canon. This season, you can explore the diversity of Shakespeare’s genius in three such very diff diff erent erent plays as Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Julius Caesar. You also have a rare opportunity to compare his work to that of his friend and rival Ben Jonson, whose Bartholomew Fair is a brilliant satire of life in London, Shakespeare’s adopted city, or with that of Jean Racine, whose Phèdre is searing drama from a diff erent dramatic tradition. Both these plays are masterpieces in their own right – and to see them performed is to discover how radical are the diff erences between the world’s greatest playwright and his nearest peers. Shakespeare’s unprecedented exploration of the human comedy paved the way for such subsequent dramatists as Anton Chekhov, Edmond Rostand and Oscar Wilde, whose work also features on our stages this season. His infl uence reveals itself even in our two musicals, one of which shares its ancestry with The Comedy of Errors while the other draws directly on Romeo and Juliet. Our own writers here in Canada owe no less to Shakespeare and the extraordinary creative ferment of his age. George F. Walker’s Canadian classic Zastrozzi uses the Jacobean revenge tragedy as its point of departure, while Sunil Kuruvilla’s Rice Boy, newly revised for our production, is rooted, like some of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, in the tensions between parents and children. So too is Morris Panych’s The Trespassers, a brand-new play that receives its world première here this season. We are delighted to welcome you to this, our 57th season. We hope you will enjoy exploring with us the astonishingly varied dramatic universe that Shakespeare helped to create and that will always honour him as its centre. Antoni cimolino General Director De s m c A n u ff Artistic Director We dedicate our 2009 season to the memory of richard monette Artistic Director of this Festival from 1994 to 2007. 1
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