Stratford Shakespeare Festival production history it also produces a wide variety of theatre from Greek tragedy to Broadway musicals to contemporary works. By 2017, only three of the 14 productions were based on Shakespeare's works. The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged as part of the Stratford Festival since its inception. On February 17, 2015, AP News reported that the Stratford Festival plans to film all of Shakespeare's plays. The 1986 season was staged by Artistic Director John Neville with Shakespeare plays produced against a modern play with similar themes or characters (i.e. "Hamlet" and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
BBC Television Shakespeare from Luigi Pirandello's play "Il Gioco delle Parti" to ITV's "Upstairs, Downstairs". Gorrie also set the play during the English Civil War, hoping the use of cavaliers and roundheads would help focus the dramatisation of the conflict between festivity and Puritanism. Gorrie wanted the episode to be as realistic as possible, and in designing Olivia's house, he made sure that the geography of the building was practical, and shot the episode in such a way that the audience becomes aware of the logical geography, often shooting characters entering and existing doorways into rooms and corridors. The "Prefaces to Shakespeare" episode