The Stratford Festival
The Festival is a summer-long celebration of theatre (seven months) in Stratford, a city located on the Avon River in Perth County, in southwestern Ontario.

Originally a furniture manufacturing city and railway junction, tourism tourism became a large part of the local economy when the Stratford Shakespearean Festival started in 1953. The annual festival now brings hundreds of thousands of Shakespeare fans to the area and has had many stars perform on its stage.

We watched "Twelfth Night" by W. Shakepeare playing in the Festival Theatre, a remarkable location. The story goes as follows: Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian, are castaways in Illyria, each believing the other drowned. Disguising herself as a man and entering the service of the lovesick Duke Orsino, Viola becomes part of an unusual romantic triangle made even more complicated by the arrival on the scene of her unwitting twin.