After three stunning previews, 1939 officially opens tonight! A huge congratulations to the entire cast and crew.

Due to popular demand, we have added an extra week of performances, including 2 Student Matinees and 4 performances open to the public.

Anticipating a visit by King George VI, an English teacher at a fictional Residential School in Northern Ontario enlists her students in a production of All’s Well That Ends Well. But her rigid ideas of how Shakespeare should be performed are challenged as news spreads, audience expectations abound and her Indigenous students start finding parallels between themselves and the characters in the play, setting out to make Shakespeare’s bitter-sweet comedy defiantly their own.

Initially produced at the Stratford Festival in 2022, 1939 was born of both family legacy and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and has been guided by Indigenous Elders, Survivors, and ceremony throughout its development.

1939

by Jani lauzon and Kaitlyn Riordan

directed by Jani Lauzon

a Canadian Stage and Belfry Theatre joint production 

in association with The Stratford Festival

at the Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley Street

For tickets visit www.canadianstage.com