Shakespeare on the River Festival in Stratford, Victoria | Arts and entertainment

Shakespeare on the River Festival

Locality: Stratford, Victoria

Address: P.O Box 203 3862 Stratford, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.stratfordshakespeare.com.au

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23.01.2022 Lock down. Saving lives.

21.01.2022 Due to the current Covid-19 social distancing regulations we’ve decided to extend our 2020 writing competition entries until MARCH 31. Whilst the festival events have had to be postponed, there is still plenty of creativity to be found in the written word and we are excited to still be able to celebrate that. After all, during the Black Plague Shakespeare wrote King Lear so no pressure so get your quills busy and make the most of the 2020 quarantine! Full details available on our website: http://www.stratfordshakespeare.com.au/2020-competition-inf

20.01.2022 Zoom party in full swing celebrating our winners - still time to join us :)

19.01.2022 Our Festival is coming! April 23 - May 9, 2020. The 2020 Shakespeare on the River festival encourages you all to embrace your inner royal, be prepared to battle for the right to rule and claim the ultimate prize. In the end, who will sit upon our Throne Of Shakespeare? Website is LIVE - come check out our outstanding lineup for 2020 and book your tickets for what promises to be a wonderfully sordid affair! http://www.stratfordshakespeare.com.au

12.01.2022 With the Bard's birthday/deathday vastly approaching (this Thursday!) and the current Covid-19 pandemic, we thought we ought to throw an isolation celebration - allowing us to still honour and celebrate our perpetual award winners, from the safety of our homes. We will be utilising Zoom for a mass party so if you would like to join us, please make sure you have the app installed on your devices. If you'd like to join and are unsure how, please reach out and we will do our bes...t to allow that to happen. Our party will take place on Thursday, April 23 from 7.30pm on Zoom. Join with the following details: The Zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5993967056 The Meeting ID is: 599 396 7056 Please also come dressed to impress - however you want to interpret that! More colour the better! Join us!

12.01.2022 A Julius Caesar Teaser Our 2020 Community Play is going to be just the pick-me-up we need once this is all behind us - plenty of colour, dancing, and a little bit more skin on show than you’re used to it’s really really fun theatre. Thanks so much to John McLaren for putting this together for our Awards Night last night. Our opening number Stayin’ Alive ended up being a whole lot more relevant for 2020 than we could ever have thought!

08.01.2022 It is with the deepest regret that we must advise you that the Shakespeare on the River Festival will not be held in April/May this year owing to the critical development of the Covid-19 Pandemic, and the Government's guidelines around events and mass gatherings over the coming months. We are devastated but we have no doubt this is the right decision. Everyone is hurting and the world is a very different place from day to day. We all need to do our part to contain and control... this thing. To ensure that our events are safe for everybody, and to do our bit in slowing the virus, we've decided to review our 2020 Festival and no longer proceed with our opening on April 23. It has been a really difficult start to 2020 for our community with bushfires over Summer and now this pandemic. We all understand the value and significance of theatre in bringing communities together and as such, we are desperate to bring you some form of the 2020 Festival lineup as soon as the threat eases and our Government advises us we are able to resume regular social practices. At this stage with so much uncertainty, we don't know exactly how that will look, or when that will be, but we can assure you that as soon as we know - we will let you know. In light of this situation, full refunds will be made to those who have already purchased tickets to events and performances. Our Faire Day stall holders will also receive a refund. Thank you for your understanding and support throughout the months leading up to the Festival and this difficult time now. We honour and appreciate the work many have already invested into the Festival and we are so sorry that the affects of the pandemic have spread to our beloved Festival as well.

07.01.2022 The Stratford Shakespeare Arts Community is deeply sorry for the great loss of Brendan Peters. Brendan was an integral part in the local arts scene - he was always kind, generous with his time and expertise and truly passionate about the arts. We are struggling to process his untimely loss. He will be greatly missed by many. Vale Brendan. : via The Wedge

06.01.2022 What a wild year it has been for us Gippsland folk. First horrific bushfires, then, like the rest of the world, an isolated lockdown due to Covid-19. Sadly the restrictions around our mission to flatten the curve in Australia meant we had to postpone our 2020 Thrones of Shakespeare Festival. However, we do plan to present what we can of our festival lineup as soon as we are able. So for the time being, we Zoom! Last night we came together to celebrate the achievements of our ...community, present our annual perpetual awards, and announce the winners of our 2020 Writing Competition. Once the formalities were over, we had an online dance party to a couple of fun tunes that are prominent in our community play Julius Caesar (Stayin’ Alive was an unintentional excellent anthem for 2020s happenings in the end! ). Thanks for those who donned their festive colours, wigs, head pieces and costumes and joined us last night. Shakespeare survived the plague - and so will we! See more

04.01.2022 The Stratford on Avon Shakespeare Association wants to share some good news amongst the uncertainty and worry of past weeks. Though our festival cannot go ahead as planned, we wish to celebrate the work and efforts of the following young people as nominees for the 18th Annual Janice Jones Youth Achievement Award. This award is presented to a young person who has gone above and beyond in the areas of acting, technical support, musical ability, and/or outstanding support and co...ntribution to the festival. Tonight we will celebrate (in isolation) on Zoom the amazing achievements of these four young people. Join us if you will! Our party will take place on Thursday, April 23 from 7.30pm on Zoom. Meeting link is provided in the invitation attached. Alternatively, you can use the following details: The Zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5993967056 The Meeting ID is: 599 396 7056

04.01.2022 Our 2020 Festival Awards night last night was a little different than our usual event, but we celebrated nevertheless and honored the achievements of some of our outstanding community, presented the annual perpetual awards and announced the winners of our 2020 writing competition. Topped off with a sensational video teaser of our community play Julius Caesar (which we cannot wait to show you all when we can gather again) and an impromptu dance party - all within the confines of Zoom It was a pretty great way to celebrate our beloved Brad’s birthday/deathday

04.01.2022 Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown Shakespeare Festival 2020 prep in full swing! Tonight? We perfect our high energy, colourful and utterly fabulous adaptation of Julius Caesar at our beloved Courthouse Theatre

03.01.2022 Ain’t no Corona going to keep us down! Friday night with an assortment of happy hour beverages, great company and our scripts! We cannot wait to bring Julius Ceasar to the stage as soon as this blasted corona is done!

02.01.2022 Friends of our festival might spot some familiar faces and a few historic, well loved costumes in this scene. Filmed under lockdown restrictions here in rural Victoria - some Shakespearean silliness to entertain and keep us together in these disconnected times.