The Stratford Festival is a theater organization based in Ontario, Canada. Although the organization primarily performs Shakespearean plays, other famous works such as The Sound of Music, The Physicists, and Oedipus Rex have been adapted and performed by the company. The award-winning cast members of the Startford Festival have been internationally recognized for their talent and cohesion has a theater troupe, and the quality and liveliness of their performances are sure to entertain viewers of all ages. One of their most recent productions, King Lear, has been digitally filmed and distributed to world-wide audiences, including the Carleton community. On Sunday, May 10, at 2:00pm, the Weitz Center Cinema will be screening King Lear. The performance runs approximately 2 hours and 53 minutes with a short intermission.
Plot summary from Stratford Festival:
An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king – and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.