STRATFORD FESTIVAL THEATRE

REVOLUTIONARY

Tyrone Guthrie and Tanya Moisevitch’s daring 1953 invention of the thrust stage is re-imagined and re- engineered inside Stratford’s Festival Theatre.

CONCENTRIC LAYERS

A good way to look at the Stratford Festival transformation project is as a series of layers emanating from the inside out with the famous thrust stage at the very center. The final layer – the lobby layer – acts as a kind of case to the central instrument, the historic thrust stage auditorium.

MAGICAL, HORSESHOE-SHAPED DRIVE

The arrival sequence is shifted and reorganized as a horseshoe-shaped ceremonial drive and walkway – the Meighen Gardens – defined by magical, luminous, canvas-covered columns. Inside the drive, a series of terraces with perennial beds and a fountain offer visitors a chance to relax before, after and during intervals of the performance, amplifying the theatrical experience.

VITAL THEATRE CHANGES

Inside the auditorium, the sacred stage is honoured with recalibrated side walls and seating, new connections between existing vomitories, new sound and light locks, and an acoustical canopy overhead.