Books, Arts & Manners: Directors on the Loose

ONE sometimes feels that warning signs should be posted on the outskirts of Stratford and Niagara-on-the-Lake, southern Ontario’s two great summer-theater towns. “Attention!” the signs might read. “Directeurs artistiques en bordée.”

At the Stratford Festival this season, the directors John Wood and Richard Rose were loosed on Richard III and Coriolanus, respectively; at the Shaw Festival in Niagara it was Tadeusz Bradecki on Mrs. Warren’s Profession.

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Linda Bridges

Ms. Bridges is the former editor-at-large of National Review.

ONE sometimes feels that warning signs should be posted on the outskirts of Stratford and Niagara-on-the-Lake, southern Ontario’s two great summer-theater towns. “Attention!” the signs might read. “Directeurs artistiques en bordée.”

At the Stratford Festival this season, the directors John Wood and Richard Rose were loosed on Richard III and Coriolanus, respectively; at the Shaw Festival in Niagara it was Tadeusz Bradecki on Mrs. Warren’s Profession.