REVIEW: Grand Magic at the Stratford Festival
Grand Magic is the sleeper hit of the Stratford Festival season and a magic trick of a production.
Grand Magic is the sleeper hit of the Stratford Festival season and a magic trick of a production.
The recipient of an Order of Canada and winner of a clutch of theatre awards — not to mention a mountain of critical bouquets — during her four decades onstage, Seana McKenna is routinely referred to as one of the country’s finest actors. But she refuses to coast on her reputation.
Acclaimed Canadian actor Paul Gross will return to the Festival Theatre stage in 2023 to play the titular character in King Lear.
“Our 20.21 season brings together some of our country’s most acclaimed theatre artists in works that celebrate the untamed spirit of youth, the determination of the individual to be seen as they are, and those that are called to wake up to the promise, and responsibility, of a more conscious life”
If someone tells me that a play is “edgy” I usually have to fight the urge to roll my eyes.
How could I establish myself at this company, with so many impossibly talented people who had training and more experience in classical theatre, without being able to sing? It was a weird feeling.
“After a day of rehearsal as Lady Macbeth I’m craving chicken hearts, drafts of blood, and things like that.”