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The Stratford Festival began in 1953
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In 1953, Tom Patterson launched an annual festival of Shakespearean theatre in his hometown of Stratford, Ontario. First artistic director Tyrone Guthrie and designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch created the Festival Theatre’s thrust stage, surrounded by the audience on three sides.
Scope & context
The festival’s founding and its stage design, not its full repertoire or later venues.
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