Top 5 Stage Theatre for School Groups, 2009

After the 8th of December, school groups will have the opportunity of purchasing tickets for the

Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s 2009 season. Naturally, our English Department will be planning a trip to see Colm Feore’s MACBETH. After that, we may decide to make it an overnight trip, giving the students the opportunity to enjoy a second show in the evening. We could always see A Midsummer Night’s Dream again.

Or should we consider something radically different? The classical production of Antigone at Soulpepper in Toronto? Or the comedy of The Odd Couple at Drayton? The Shaw Festival is offering everything Noel Coward.

Personally, I think that after Macbeth, our top 5 options should be:

1. Julius Caesar
2. Billy Bishop Goes to War
3. The Importance of Being Ernest
4. Glengarry Glen Ross
5. Three Sisters

The buzz around our school for Macbeth has already begun. Whatever else we choose will be in the Thane’s shadow.