1939

Stratford Festival

Anticipating a visit by King George VI, an English teacher at a fictional Residential School in Northern Ontario enlists her students in a production of All’s Well That Ends Well. But her rigid ideas of how Shakespeare should be performed are challenged as her Indigenous students start finding parallels between themselves and the characters in the play – and, far from letting themselves be defined by colonial expectations, set out to make Shakespeare’s bitter-sweet comedy defiantly their own.

co-playwrights: Jani Lauzon & Kaitlyn Riordan. director: Jani Lauzon. assistant director: desirée leverenz. set designer: Joanna Yu. costume designer: Asa Benally. lighting designer: Louise Guinand. composer and sound designer: Wayne Kelso. dramaturge: Jessica Carmichael. research dramaturge: Sorouja Moll. fight director: Geoff Scovell.

featuring: Richard Comeau, Sarah Dodd, Jacklyn Francis, Wahsonti:io Kirby, Kathleen MacLean, Mike Shara, Tara Sky, and John Wamsley.

photos by: David Hou