A Trip to the Stratford Festival in Canada Photo Gallery by evelyn55 at pbase.com

A Trip to the Stratford Festival in Canada

The trip to the Festival, founded in 1953, was a first for most of us. Together we enjoyed "The Importance of Being Earnest" then went our separate ways to see "West Side Story," "Cyrano de Bergerac," "Ever Yours, Oscar," "Julius Caesar," and "The Trespassers," meeting for meals and tours to the costume and props warehouse and the gardens.
August 11-14, 2009 (For views larger than slide show, click directly on the image then click on "next")

Where we stayed	Interesting mailbox at the River Garden Inn	The City Hall is a downtown landmark	Closer view	Browsing
Soapstone and other works of art		Dinner on the terrace of "The Parlour Historic Inn"
	Returning after the play for the Pavlova dessert			The Festival theatre faces a lake of swans and ducks
A black swan in the background		An unusual duck	with a long thin flap for a "chin"	The duck and its mate communicating
		A visit to the warehouse of costumes
		A brief lecture precedes the tour	Thousands of costumes and props
A blood-stained shirt	Many shoes and boots are custom made	We can try on some of the costumes	mostly for photos
		Dinner at Othello's bar and restaurant		Crab cakes
A warm chevre salad	A walk to Stratford's art gallery	with its beautiful garden		A flat metal sculpture
and its marker	Local artists are featured	"Mariner" by Robert Skipper	"Las Lesamies" terracotta by Virgil Barnet	"Thunder" by John Holland
Dinner at the Arden Park Hotel				The Festival theatre and its thrust stage
Breakfast at the River Garden Inn		View of the Festival theatre from the lake		The Festival theatre entrance
Shakespeare in the Elizabethan garden	The sculpture was intended to be a sundial	Sculpture commemorating the raising of the tent	The festival was in a tent theatre in its first years	The "carpet garden" features symbols of
the plays of the present season	The Meighen garden at the entrance of the Festival theatre			Lots of phlox in the garden
			Lunch at Foster's Inn

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