Des McAnuff (AD, Stratford Festival) talks about why he loves the theatre
World Theatre Day | (2)
From Des McAnuff, the artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival:
It has been my great privilege to work as a theatre director in countries around the globe – in Australia, in Europe, in Russia before the fall of the Berlin Wall and all over North America. Throughout those travels, and in my current position as Artistic Director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, North America’s largest classical repertory theatre, I continue to be awed by the extraordinary power of this art to engage the mind, fire the imagination and arouse the spirit.
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