Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see Shakespeare’s King John. Hailed by critics as “riveting” (Toronto Star), “sublime” (Chicago Tribune) and “deliciously contemporary” (Globe and Mail), it features Tom McCamus giving “a daring performance” in the title role (National Post). This often-overlooked gem explores an eternal question: where do we draw the line between personal integrity and political expediency?

LIVE EVENTS

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PRESHOW

with Graham Abbey & Tom McCamus
Thursday, June 18, at 6:30 pm EDT

Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino interviews two of the leading actors in Tim Carroll’s 2014 production of King John.

KING JOHN LIVE VIEWING PARTY

Thursday, June 18, at 7 pm EDT

When the rule of a narcissistic and mercurial king is questioned, rebellion, assassination and excommunication ensue, culminating in the chilling attempt to commit an atrocity against a child, whose mother’s anguished grief cannot atone for her blinkered ambitions for her son.

NDO-MSHKOGAABWIMI – WE ARE STANDING STRONG

Saturday, June 20, at 11 am EDT

Stories of endurance, resistance and resilience by members of the Indigenous Circle at Stratford.

With special guests: Cole Alvis, Jessica Carmichael, Dean Gabourie, Lisa Nasson, Quelemia Sparrow, Elizabeth Stevens (Cultural Consultant/Elder) and Gordon Patrick White.
Moderated by Jani Lauzon

BONUS CONTENT
STREAMING FREE ON DEMAND

CREATIVE CONCEPTS

with Tim Carroll & David Prosser

Director Tim Carroll talks with Literary and Editorial Director David Prosser about his production of King John.

IN CONVERSATION

with Antoni Cimolino & Adam Gopnik

Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino interviews award-winning essayist and commentator Adam Gopnik. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1986, Mr. Gopnik is also the author of several books, including the recent A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism.

FROM OUR ARCHIVES

WHOSE LIVES MATTER?

Streaming Free On Demand

The politics of inclusion is everywhere we look. And the question of who’s in, who’s out – how society seems to set one marginalized group against another – makes us ask questions about our own tolerance for change and progress. CBC Ideas host Paul Kennedy moderates a discussion featuring Sandra Hudson, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto; janaya khan, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Canada; and artist d’bi.young anitafrika.

AND HER CHILDREN

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Canadian senator and retired general Roméo Dallaire, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, founder of the Daughters for Life Foundation, and Dr. Samantha Nutt, founder of War Child Canada, come together for this extraordinary panel, moderated by CBC Radio producer and documentary maker Karin Wells, that examines the contemporary equivalents to Mother Courage’s children, and the living legacies of war. This event took place in 2014 as an accompaniment to the Stratford Festival’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children.

Photo: Tom McCamus as King John. © 2014 The Stratford Festival.