Stratford Shakespeare Festival Announces 2008 Offerings

The Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada will be known as the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, beginning in November. After the current season concludes, the Festival will have a new artistic team led by Antoni Cimolino, Marti Maraden, Des McAnuff, and Don Shipley.

The festival also announced some of its offerings for the 2008 season, including productions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, directed by Adrian Noble, The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Peter Hinton, Romeo and Juliet, directed by McAnuff, All’s Well That Ends Well, directed by Maraden, and Love’s Labour’s Lost, directed by Michael Langham, who was the Festival’s artistic director from 1956 to 1967.

Also on next season’s calendar will be Stratford’s first-ever production of Euripides’ The Trojan Women, directed by Maraden; Laurence Boswell’s production of Lope de Vega’s Fuente Ovejuna; and Michael Thalheimer’s production of Emilia Galotti, to be presented in German with English subtitles.

For more information, visit www.stratfordfestival.ca.