Abstract

ANADA must be the only country of its size in the world that has only one theater. Apart from the Royal Alexandra in Toronto there is absolutely no other building that was built, and still serves, as a theater in the Dominion. There is, therefore, no professional theater company which operates on a normal basis. There are brave ventures in converted churches, in high school auditoriums, and in made-over city buildings. There is also a well developed amateur or little theatre movement which is stimulated by a nationwide Drama Festival every spring. But no budding actor trained by such excellent amateur performances can hope to turn professional unless he goes to the U.S.A. or to Great Britain, or transfers his allegiance to the lucrative fields of radio and TV. It is all the more astonishing therefore that this summer saw a new Shakespeare festival spring to life in an isolated small town in Canada. A festival, too, that made headlines across the country; was favourably noticed in all the U.S. papers; and was adequately covered by The Times in England.

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