Harmony, Love, and War at the Stratford Festival
Theatre lovers, be ready for what the Stratford Festival has to offer in summer 2025 as you are invited to encounter and question numerous design choices while enjoying its world class production values.
About the program
The objective of this class is to explore aspects of designs in a theatre festival setting such as those in fashion at the Stratford Festival, in Stratford, Ontario. As North America's largest classical repertory theatre, this institution examines the work of famous playwright William Shakespeare among many approaches such as contemporary plays and musicals. The festival offers an invaluable opportunity for students to examine its artistic directions through time along with the exemplary production values, design realizations and performances. This class focuses on design aspects that are being chosen to tell stories but also on the immense pool of topics covered by the various plays. The students will be asked to choose a research topic of their choice linked with the theme for the Season 2025 – Seeking Harmony. At the end of the class, students will be capable of appreciating several important themes that make this Festival Season so unique.
Dates & courses
Dates:
- June 27, 2025 & July 11, 2025: 10:00 a.m. - 14:00 p.m. in GM 5.530
- July 14, 2025- July 21, 2025 in Stratford, Ontario
- August 1, 2025: 10:00 a.m. to 14:00 p.m. in GM 5.530
Courses:
- Undergraduate Course: SCEN 448 GA (3 CREDITS)
- Graduate Course: FAFS 398 GD, FAFS 660 GD, FAFS 860 GD (3 CREDITS)
Estimated cost
Program fee: : Concordia will charge program participants for 3 credits of undergraduate tuition and a program fee of 1,270 $ CDN to cover
- Accommodations
- Light Breakfast
- Seven plays (Macbeth, Anne of Green Gables, Forgiveness, Annie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sense and Sensibility, The Winter’s tale)
- Back stage visit, Costumes & Props Tour and set changeovers
Available Funding
Peter N. Thomson Family Field School Award
The Faculty of Fine Arts invites applications for the Peter N. Thomson Family Field School Awards. The Award offers an amount of $1,300 for thirty (30) eligible Fine Arts undergraduate or graduate students accepted to a Field School hosted by the Faculty of Fine Arts. Please consult the Peter N. Thomson Field School Award webpage for application instructions.
Quebec Mobility Bursary
To help with the costs of going abroad, Concordia offers a $600 CAD Quebec Mobility Bursary to students.
To qualify, you must be a Concordia student enrolled in a Concordia Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctoral degree program and approved to participate in the field school.
Important to note:
Field school applicants do not need to submit a bursary application as it is part of the on-line field school application, and you will automatically be considered for the Quebec Mobility bursary.
The bursary will be applied to student accounts. Details on the payment of the bursary will be sent to successful field school applicants.
Contact Concordia International if you have any questions on your eligibility for funding.
Accommodations
Participants will primarily stay in a hotel located close to all theatres. Students will share double occupation with separate beds. A light breakfast is offered at the hotel.
Application process
To be eligible to participate in the field school, you must meet one of the following criteria.
- Be enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree program, with a minimum 2.7 cumulative culmative GPA (CGPA) and have completed at least 24 credits toward your current degree program by the time you leave for the program.
- Be enrolled in a Master’s degree program, with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA (CGPA) and have completed at least 9 credits toward your current degree program by the departure date.
- Be enrolled in PhD degree program, have a 3.7 cumulative GPA (CGPA) and have completed at least 9 credits toward your current degree program by the departure date.
All students interested in applying to this program must attend an information session given by Concordia International.
Date: February 3rd 2025
Time: 11:00-12:00
Submit the Concordia Field School Abroad Application by the application deadline of February 14, 2025. The application can be accessed through the Concordia International CSEP Mobility Portal.
Your application must also include:
- A copy of your most recent unofficial Concordia transcript.
- A letter of intent of 500-750 words describing why you wish to participate in the Stratford Festival Field School and the kind of work you hope to accomplish while there. You should also make mention of what strengths or contributions you think you will bring to the group.
- Concordia admissions decisions will be communicated by email after the application deadline.
- Final admissions decisions will be made by the program director Raymond Marius Boucher
- Students admitted to the program will have to make a non-refundable $500 deposit to Student Accounts by March 19, 2025. Please be aware, however, that any deposit you make will first be applied to any outstanding balances you owe to Concordia.
- Students admitted to the program will have to attend a mandatory pre-departure meeting TBC.
All information on this website is subject to change without notice; the program is subject to a minimum enrollment of 16 students to take place; and it may be cancelled at any time and for any reason.
Have a question?
Academic Inquiries
Senior Lecturer, Department of Theatre