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A Classical Gas: Ontario's Stratford Festival at Fifty |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: Michael W. Higgins |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 2,052 Words, 13,063 Characters |
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When the Jesuit-educated Montrealer Richard Monette, artistic director of the Stratford Festival in Ontario, announced the much-anticipated roster of productions scheduled for the 2002 season, he observed that it will be a "celebration of how artists heal through laughter, tears, and beauty." Speaking in the very shadow of the September 11 massacres, he was addressing the urgent need felt by so many artists to find some meaningful way of responding to the forces of unreason set upon the world. After all, like so many artistic directors before him, Monette is an actor (although he has long since retired from the stage), an artist who appreciates the desperate human urge to celebrate and heal.
But he is also the current artistic director of a world-famous festival of the arts and Canad...
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... hope and wild dreaming, sweetly reminiscent of the founding years, may well become the defining mark of Stratford's next fifty years. More Information Information on the Stratford Festival of Canada can be accessed on the Internet at www.stratfordfestival.ca. The generous assistance of Ontario Tourism (www.ontariotravel.com) and Air Canada (www.aircanada.com) is gratefully acknowledged.
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