"Чествование Шекспира"

Shakespeare, the city fathers decided to do something to attract

people there. They asked the greatest actor of the time David Garrick to organize a festival in Stratford. Garrick planned to do it in the first week of September, 1769. He wanted the festival to the greatest outdoor festival staged in England

the festival was opened. Many people came to Stratford. The

first day was successful, and Garrick was happy. On the second day it rained hard. The second-day evening ended as it began — in the rain. On the third day all the people left Stratford, Garrick returned to London very sad. But his festival was the beginning of a tradition. Stratford is now famous fоr its Shakespeare festivals. Every year a lot of people come to Stratford for the Festival season which lasts from April to September

deaths; the valiant never taste death but once.
Life’s but a

walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
All the world’s a stage, and the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances.

festival annually produces eleven plays on three stages during a

season that lasts from February to October. Approximately half of the plays produced each year are by William Shakespeare.

the outdoor Elizabethan Stage (aka Allen Pavilion), three in the

New Theatre, and five in the Angus Bowmer Theatre. OSF provides a broad range of educational programs for secondary and college students and theatre professionals while providing a wide range of classic and contemporary plays. While OSF has produced non-Shakespearean works since 1960, each season continues to include three to five Shakespeare plays. Since 1935, it has staged Shakespeare's complete canon three times, completing the first cycle in 1958 with a production of Troilus and Cressida and completing the second and third cycles through the works in 1978 and 1997. Since 2000, there has also been at least one new work each season from playwrights such as Octavio Solis and Robert Schenkkan

is an internationally recognized annual celebration of theatrerunning from April to

November in the Canadian city of Stratford, Ontario.[1] Theatre-goers, actors, and playwrights flock to Stratford to take part — many of the greatest Canadian, British, and American actors play roles at the Stratford festival. It was one of the first and is still one of the most prominent arts festivals in Canada and is recognized worldwide for its productions of Shakespearean plays.
The Festival's primary mandate is to present productions of William Shakespeare's plays, but it also produces a wide variety of theatre from Greek tragedy to contemporary works. Shakepeare's work typically represents about a third of the Festival's offerings.
The success of the festival dramatically changed the image of Stratford into one of a city where the arts and tourism play important roles in its economy. The festival attracts many tourists from outside Canada, mainly those British and American, and is seen as a very important part of Stratford's tourism sector.

on September 19, 1999.

world.