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smART x Stratford Pt.3: Casey and Diana

Sean Arbuckle (left) as Thomas and Krystin Pellerin as Diana in Casey and Diana. Stratford Festival 2023. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann
A theatrical exercise in compassion that represents the very best of Stratford 2023
REVIEW BY STEPHEN LOW | STRATFORD | FOURTH WALL
JUL 04, 2023 | ISSUE 12
Contemporary theatre has directly engaged the human suffering caused by a pandemic in the past. In the 80s and 90s, many plays and musicals were written and staged that dramatised the HIV/AIDs epidemic, including well-known works like Rent (also at the Stratford Festival this year), Angels in America, and The Normal Heart. Casey and Diana, also a play that deals with AIDs, follows in the footsteps of these important texts but in the shadow of the most recent global health crisis─the COVID 19 pandemic.
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