Ontario's Stratford Festival Announces Its 2022 Season
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Many avid theatre goers have been waiting to hear what will appear on the Stratford Festival bill in 2022.
Word is now out that ten plays will grace the stages of The Festival, The Avon, The Studio, and the new Tom Patterson Theatres.
Excitement is building for the season.
In a recent news and media release, Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino announced:
“Next year we celebrate our 70th season, the 20th anniversary of the Studio Theatre, the 10th Meighen Forum season and the grand opening of our glorious new Tom Patterson Theatre. But most of all we celebrate a new beginning…For thousands of people, coming to the Stratford Festival is an annual pilgrimage…By the time they arrive to see the shows of our 2022 season, it will have been three years since most of them have set foot in one of our theatres.
We want their return to be everything they hope for. We want them to feel safe, of course, but we also want to fill the void left by the absence of live theatre and communal activities. The plays in the 2022 season contain not only new beginnings but the difficult moral and ethical as well.”
Here’s the slate:
CHICAGO: Directed and Choreographer by Donna Feore. Venue: Festival Theatre. This is the first time the musical has been staged while the show is still running to capacity houses in New York City.
HAMLET: Directed by Peter Pasyk. Venue: Festival Theatre.
THE MISER by Moliere with new adaptation by Ranjit Bolt: Directed by Antoni Cimolino. Venue: Festival Theatre
RICHARD III: Directed by Antoni Cimolino. Venue: Tom Patterson Theatre
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL: Directed by Scott Wentworth Venue: Tom Patterson Theatre
DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMEN by Wole Soyinka: Directed by Tawiah M’Carthy. Venue: Tom Patterson Theatre
SCHULICH CHILDREN’S PLAYS LITTLE WOMEN World Premiere of a Stratford Festival Commission. Based on the novels ‘Little Women’ and ‘Good Wives’ by Louisa May Alcott. Adapted for the Stage by Jordi Mand. Directed by Esther Jun. Venue: Avon Theatre.
EVERY LITTLE NOOKIE. World Premiere by Sunny Drake. Directed by ted witzel. Venue: Studio Theatre.
HAMLET-911 World Premiere of a Stratford Festival Commission by Ann-Marie Macdonald. Directed by Alisa Palmer. Venue: Studio Theatre.
1939 World Premiere of a Stratford Festival Commission by Jani Lauzon and Kaitlyn Riordan. Directed by Jani Lauzon. Venue: Studio Theatre.
To find out more about The Stratford Festival please visit www.stratfordfestival.ca or the Facebook page: @StratfordFestival.
Tickets on sale to Members March 6, 2022; Box office opens to the public March 18, 2022.