The Stratford Adventure

2/9/2024

Local journalist Tom Patterson decided that is was time for a Shakespearian festival in Stratford. Not the one in Warwickshire, though - this one is to be several thousand miles away in another Stratford. Ontario. Armed with just C$125 he heads to New York to gauge interest and then against the odds manages to get funding to build a tented theatre and then to entice the director of London's Old Vic Theatre, Tyrone Guthrie, to come and give them some advice. Be bold, take risks and expect to spend cash! The first two they have little problem with, but these hugely enthusiastic people have to find C$15,000 over a weekend or they have arranged the travel of their play's director Guthrie as well as Irene Worth, Michael Bates and Alec Guinness for nought. Two mysterious donors solve that proble