Romeo and Juliet (World Live Cinema Series) | November 4 | 2 – 5 pm

Director Scott Wentworth brings fresh life to the beloved tale of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers in the Stratford Festival’s funny, moving, and thrilling production, starring Antoine Yared and Sara Farb, and captured live on stage with a full audience using seven cameras and 128 tracks of sound to create a sensational high-definition, surround-sound production.

“When we look at the hate speech around us today,” Wentworth says,  we see our world hasn’t progressed far beyond the Capulets and the Montagues. Contemporary cases of suicide by young people raise the same questions as the play: How do we take care of our young people? How do we help them navigate from childhood to adulthood? How do we save them from despair? Why do we have such need to treat others as “other”? How do we connect to those whom we fear or who trouble us? To that great soul of Shakespeare’s, such questions always mattered. This play demands that we too – particularly at this cultural moment – take them to heart.”

With the works of Shakespeare at its core, this Stratford Festival repertory theatre – since its revolutionary first season in 1953 –  has welcomed more than 27 million theatregoers from around the world to this small Canadian town.  In 2015, the Stratford Festival embarked upon a 10-year initiative to capture the entire Shakespeare canon in spectacular HD, bringing the work of this renowned company to audiences at more than 350 cinema screens worldwide.

Running time 3 hours

The WORLD LIVE CINEMA SERIES brings the greatest contemporary performances of the world’s leading opera, dance and theater companies shot in high definition film in front of a live audience at the most celebrated grand stages throughout Europe and North America,  showcased on the giant screen in 4k projection and full surround sound of the historic Garde Movie Palace.

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