Canada’s Stratford Festival re-named
p2pnet news | off topic:- “What’s in a name?” – wonders Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
Taking the thought literally, Canada’s famous Stratford Festival is restoring “Shakespeare” to its name.
“As of November, it will be called the Stratford Shakespeare Festival,” says the Canadian Press.
The name was dropped in the late 1960s and is being brought back again under the stewardship of the festival’s new artistic team, general director Antoni Cimolino, Marti Maraden, Des McAnuff and Don Shipley.
“The quartet replaces outgoing artistic director Richard Monette, who will step down from his current role at the end of this season,” says CP.
Appropriately, Romeo and Juliet will be among productions featured in 2008, with others including Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, All’s Well That Ends Well and Love’s Labour’s Lost.
“What is do or die for us is doing Shakespeare and doing it well,” the CBC has Cimolino saying.
“That’s what gets people in their cars and driving to Stratford. It’s really about identity, about calling yourself who you really are.”
Also See:
Canadian Press- Stratford fest to be renamed Stratford Shakespeare Festival, July 17, 2007
CBC – New international thrust to renamed Stratford festival, July 17, 2007
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