On a perfect Saturday, after a rocky start at the car rental place (we ended up with a Lexus, sigh),

On a perfect Saturday, after a rocky start at the car rental place (we ended up with a Lexus, sigh), three of us hit the road to spend the day in Stratford, Ontario, home of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival .
After a decent lunch at a place called Backstage (Othello cheap airtickets s next door was closed) and a vanilla-less London Fog at a sweet café staffed by sweet people (but with no vanilla in their London Fogs), we hit the bustling streets full and revitalized.
The culinary festival was in full swing.  There was Chuck in a truck selling some sort of kitchen thing to the crowd, little kids on each street corner busking with their violins, and break-dancers busting a move in front of the BBQ rib extravaganza.
And then the theatre cheap airtickets  Though the Stratford Festival of Canada recently rebranded to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, we opted for two non-Shakespeare plays.  The matinée we saw, The Little cheap airtickets Years , was presented at the Studio Theatre, the smallest and newest (and my most favourite) space at the festival.
It was the perfect venue for The Little Years , a seemingly little play that manages to be about time, education, family, devotion, obsession, math, regret and it was absolutely heartbreaking.  I think the only person who can tackle these themes with equal parts humanity, raw emotion, wit, and intelligence is the one and only John Mighton .  The production was elegantly pared-down with the lighting and sound design painting the stage and air sometimes intrusively, but mostly evocatively.  Irene Poole as Kate blew me away.
We braved our way through the busy theatre store where I resisted buying any t-shirts I would have loved to wear to school in grade 8, and found our seats in the enormous and quite lavish cheap airtickets Avon Theatre.
Despite an unusually annoying audience (lots of SHHHH! and It s starting! and loud mouth-breathing and program shuffling and full-out talking what d he say? and incessant waves of coughing), The Homecoming was the extraordinary theatrical experience I ve been craving.
Written in six weeks by the genius that was Harold Pinter, I don t even know where to begin describing its plot and all the questions it raises. cheap airtickets  Can I just say it s dark and hilarious and you should read it, if you can t see it?  But if you re in the Stratford neighbourhood before Oct 30th, you should check out this grounded, engaging production directed by Jennifer Tarver and starring a truly cohesive and riveting group of actors.
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