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Jun 5, 2024 · Twelfth Night director Seana McKenna and assistant director Lydie Dubuisson discuss their time spent collaborating with a strong collective of female creatives. Listen as the...
4 days ago · Twelfth Night, for example, is directed by Seana Mckenna whose 31 Stratford seasons have made her an acting legend. Mckenna’s support and encouragement have been vital to this young actress’s full-fledged foray into Shakespeare this year. “Seana was instrumental in my decision to pursue this course and keep at it.
Jun 3, 2024 · Seana McKenna has beautifully illuminated the heart and soul of the play, never tipping it too much into comedy and sacrificing the ache of it, but also balancing both the comedy and the heartache in equal measure.
Jun 1, 2024 · At the Festival Theatre on Monday, the season officially opened with the Bard’s romantic comedy “Twelfth Night,” helmed by veteran actor Seana McKenna. Two days later on Wednesday, director Esther Jun’s “Cymbeline” opened at the 600-seat Tom Patterson Theatre.
Jun 8, 2024 · At the Festival Theatre on Monday, the season officially opened with the Bard’s romantic comedy “Twelfth Night,” helmed by veteran actor Seana McKenna. Two days later on Wednesday, director Esther Jun’s “Cymbeline” opened at the 600-seat Tom Patterson Theatre.
Jun 6, 2024 · McKenna allows the play’s interweaving comic plots to unfold largely as Shakepeare quilled them, although a silent opening sequence, lit with spectral precision by Bonnie Beecher, offers a short depiction of the shipwreck that leaves twins Viola (Jessica B. Hill) and Sebastian (Austin Eckert) scrambling across the rocky shores of Illyria.
Jun 3, 2024 · Twelfth Night is the opening show of the Stratford Festival season this year, with director Seana McKenna’s 1960sset production marking the 13th time the Shakespeare comedy has been staged at the esteemed Ontario repertory theatre.
