Sunday, November 02, 2008
Please don’t tear down the Festival’s famous stage
Southwestern Ontario: "Yet one of these stages is special, unique, to Canadian artistic heritage. It is a place of innovation and deep theatrical history for future generations, a place of immeasurable value. It is the Tanya Moiseiwitsch thrust stage, the flagship stage of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. And it is going to be destroyed."
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This is so sad. The stage is beautiful. I think that you can manage to do a modern show on this kind of a stage. You don't need trap doors and fancy rotating floors to do a great show. The history and beauty of this stage is worth too much to tear it down. I hope they don't go through with it.
I feel a strong sense of grief that this stage, which is a testament to theatre would be assumed incapable of compensating for a modern show. Old buildings are constantly re-furbished and updated to suit modern needs and in theatre it should be no different. I sincerely hope that this is not followed through to fruition.
While I can appreciate all that modern technologies can do for a theatrical production I do not agree that it is necessary to completely tear down a place full of history in order to make it useful for modern times. I believe they should look at ways of making adaptations that would still preserving this great stage.
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