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The Stratford Adventure
Directed byMorten Parker
Written byGudrun Parker
Produced byGuy Glover
StarringAlec Guinness
Narrated byJohn Drainie
CinematographyDonald Wilder
Edited byDouglas Tunstell
Kenneth Heeley-Ray (sound)
Music byLouis Applebaum

Production
company

National Film Board of Canada

Release date

  • August 2, 1954 (1954-08-02)

Running time

39:17 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Stratford Adventure is a 1954 Oscar-nominated documentary film about the founding of the Stratford Festival. It is directed by Morten Parker for the National Film Board of Canada.[1]

It tells the story of how the small Canadian city of Stratford, on the banks of the Avon River, realized the vision of local journalist Tom Patterson: the creation of a theatre for the staging of the finest Shakespearean drama. Patterson gathered a committee of local people and invited Tyrone Guthrie to advise on the festival and direct the plays. A fund was set up, an Elizabethan stage built, and Alec Guinness and Irene Worth were signed to perform alongside Canadian actors in Richard III and All's Well That Ends Well.

The film shows Alec Guinness giving Timothy Findley lessons in breath control, Tyrone Guthrie directing rehearsals, and the creation of elaborate sets and costumes. It also shows the crucial meeting which took place when the project was facing bankruptcy, then visitors flocking to Stratford, and scenes from the triumphant reality of the plays.[2][3]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Stratford Adventure". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  • ^ "The Stratford adventure 1954". exlibrisgroup.com. York University. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  • ^ "The Stratford Adventure". bufvc.ac.uk. British Universities Film & Video Council. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  • ^ Wyndham Wise, ed. (September 8, 2001). "The Stratford Adventure". Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. University of Toronto Press. pp. 201–202. ISBN 978-0802083982.
  • ^ "The 27th Academy Awards (1955) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Retrieved May 30, 2019.
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