A Season of Madness at The Tom Patterson Theatre - 2014 stratford festival
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This is the Tom Patterson Theatre here at the Stratford Festival.
It is an incredible home for plays. There's an intimacy here to the Tom Patterson.
There's a chance to really examine and explore these texts with actors just a matter of feet away.
You hear things you've never heard before.
The elongated thrust provides a beautiful setting for these plays
with many different performance areas and many different dynamics.
As a matter of fact, coming and seeing a play here in one position
and then coming back and seeing it in another is to see really a different play.
Within the plays at the Tom Patterson this season, we explore many different drivers for people.
In 'King John' we have ambition - political ambition - as well as fear.
In 'Mother Courage', there's the need to survive. And the need to survive against
a difficult backdrop like war and what that does to human nature.
But in 'Antony and Cleopatra' there's a combination of those elements.
There is war. There is political ambition. But against that, there's something that makes both those things poor.
And that is a desire to really be loved and to love.
And that makes war and political ambition... small.
