The stage adaptation of the CanLit classic "The Diviners" will get its world premiere at the Stratford Festival in its 2024 season. Audience members are seen through a screen on the Stratford Festival's opening night of their theatre season in Stratford, Ont. on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
The stage adaptation of the CanLit classic "The Diviners" will get its world premiere at the Stratford Festival in its 2024 season. Audience members are seen through a screen on the Stratford Festival's opening night of their theatre season in Stratford, Ont. on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
TORONTO - The stage adaptation of the CanLit classic "The Diviners" will get its world premiere at the Stratford Festival in its 2024 season.
Vern Thiessen and Yvette Nolan wrote the play based on Margaret Laurence's 1974 novel, and it will be directed by Krista Jackson with Geneviève Pelletier.
The season at Stratford will also feature some Shakespeare classics, including a production of "Twelfth Night" directed by veteran actress Seana McKenna, who has previously played both Viola and Olivia.
The festival will also mount productions of "Romeo and Juliet" and "Cymbeline."
It will present two musicals: "Something Rotten!" and "La Cage aux Folles."
The festival's artistic director, Antoni Cimolino, says the collection of 12 productions will reflect on the idea of "a world elsewhere" and a journey into the unknown.
This report by ºÃÉ«tvwas first published Sept. 12, 2023.
