STRATFORD
A recent cover of The New Yorker magazine depicted Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton sharing a bed, both drowsily reaching for the same fabled red phone at 3 a.m. The image gave one hilarious answer to the question of who would be better equipped to handle the ultimate crisis call. Why couldn’t they share ultimate responsibility at the White House?
Almost as ludicrous, it strikes me, was the notion that several people could share the job of artistic director of the Stratford Festival. But that is what the festival announced, in 2006, with no joke intended.
To some of us, the only really surprising element of the news earlier this month about the acrimonious termination of the festival’s group directorate was that almost everyone involved professed to be surprised that it didn’t work.
I read about that Stratford Troika*
Bizarre when U think 3 powerful Peeps who U know are gonna wanna put their Imprint on the Fest are gonna Share Power!!
thass a Wet Midsummer’s Night Dream + thensome!!