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Sep 10, 2026
Terry MatalasGUEST
So I wonder if you could talk a little bit, if you'd be willing to talk a little bit about that process.
Nicholas MeyerGUEST
Okay, first of all, I would like to preface this by saying that Bill Shatner, who had been a Shakespearean actor with Christopher Plummer at the Canadian Shakespeare Festival, He could be a very great actor.
Nicholas MeyerGUEST
He had it in him, he could do it.
Nicholas MeyerGUEST
I think he did a lot of television at a certain point.
Ellie LeonardGUEST
And she did, like, the...
Ellie LeonardGUEST
Oh, what is it? The Stratford on Aiden festival, Stratford festival.
Ellie LeonardGUEST
And she was just, she was one of these kids who has really pushed into acting as a child and was just like, not what she wanted, but it was kind of more what her parents wanted.
Ellie LeonardGUEST
But she wrote this beautiful book of essays that sort of combine what she wanted for being a mother versus what the world wanted her to be as an actress and what, where she set her priorities.
Nina ManelsonHOST
I think about Shakespeare.
Nina ManelsonHOST
So my mom, I grew up in Canada, and every year my mom would take us to the Stratford Theatre Festival, Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Nina ManelsonHOST
But I was a kid, right? It sounds like this to me.
Nina ManelsonHOST
That's what Shakespeare sounded like.
Phil RickabyHOST
My guest next week is Jacqueline Francis.
Phil RickabyHOST
Jacqueline is a longtime member of the Stratford Festival Company and has appeared on stages across Canada.
Curtis CampbellGUEST
and
Phil RickabyHOST
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Ronnie BurkettGUEST
Kim Crosley has made the costumes for close to 40 years.
Ronnie BurkettGUEST
Kim is a cutter at the Stratford Festival and we have a shorthand that can't be replaced.
Ronnie BurkettGUEST
So Kim has done all the clothes for all the shows all these years.
Ronnie BurkettGUEST
And, you know, I have a guy, Marcus Jamin, who comes in and does all the stringing for me.
Aitana GuillaGUEST
Fascism can be defeated if you see the signs.
Nahlah AyedHOST
We recorded the series in July 2026 at the Stratford Festival in Ontario during a week of events hosted by Ideas.
Nahlah AyedHOST
It is my pleasure to introduce our moderator today.
Nahlah AyedHOST
Please join me in giving a warm welcome to Nahlah Ayed.
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Nahlah AyedHOST
[Instrumental music] And the future of that anti-fascist leadership may well hold lessons for our own time.
Nahlah AyedHOST
[Instrumental music]That was the first half of a panel about the rise of fascism in Italy under Benito Mussolini.
Nahlah AyedHOST
It's the first in a five-part series called How to Defeat Authoritarianism, recorded in July at the 2026 Stratford Festival in Ontario.
Nahlah AyedHOST
This is Ideas.
TobyHOST
He left school at 16, hoping to become a dancer, though a bad back quashed that ambition.
TobyHOST
He then turned to acting and in 1953 appeared in the inaugural season of the Stratford Festival.
TobyHOST
There he met Alec Guinness and Tyrone Guthrie, which led to acting work in London.
TobyHOST
And in London, he met Thornton Wilder and worked up the courage to show Wilder his own writing, which Wilder encouraged him to continue.
Paul MackeyHOST
Jefferson Mappin was born in Montreal in 1955, getting interested in acting and theater in high school and working stage crew in community theater.
Paul MackeyHOST
In theater, he performed in three seasons at the Stratford Festival, among the 30 productions he was involved with.
Paul MackeyHOST
In the movies, he was in disaster film City on Fire, which later became a lost episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 during the inaugural season on KTMA, which I saw when it aired.
Paul MackeyHOST
Apparently it's also available on YouTube, so I suppose it's not exactly lost.
Amy Dempsey RavenHOST
Bridget was a local star, a gifted child actress and singer who performed in stage and television productions.
Amy Dempsey RavenHOST
At 16, she landed a summer apprenticeship at the Stratford Festival, a renowned theater company in Southern Ontario, famous for its Shakespearean productions.
Doug BlackwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's where she met Bill.
Amy Dempsey RavenHOST
Bill Harrison was a catch, tall, athletic, and incredibly handsome with kind eyes and a great laugh.
Sara FarbGUEST
And so finding a person who ticks all of those boxes, it's not extremely common.
Phil RickabyHOST
How did this come up for you? You've spent quite a few years at the Stratford Festival.
Phil RickabyHOST
This is your first time leaving the Stratford Festival and going to the Shaw Festival.
Phil RickabyHOST
Your first time at the Shaw Festival.
Phil RickabyHOST
And when you were announced as playing Fanny Bryce, there was a lot of fanfare about how this is perfect casting and all this sort of thing.
Phil RickabyHOST
But how did this come up that you would take on this role and leave the Stratford Festival?
Sara FarbGUEST
Well, I had left the Stratford Festival a few years before.
Sara FarbGUEST
I came back to do As You Like It.
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