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The Talented Mr. Rooney

The Talented Mr. Rooney

This month, we put a spotlight on actor Tom Rooney, the lead of our new original release, The Understudy. He is also returning to Stratford Festival stages for the 2025 season, where he’ll be playing Macduff in Macbeth and Camillo in The Winter’s Tale. STRATFEST@HOME subscribers can stream snapshots of Tom’s 14-season career through an unparalleled library of filmed stage performances and archival offerings. Celebrate the month of Shakespeare’s birthday and Tom Rooney’s return to the Festival with these streamed offerings of his past roles: Coriolanus, R+J, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Twelfth Night.

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The Talented Mr. Rooney
  • The Understudy

    The Understudy is a peek-behind-the-curtain story of the theatre world. An understudy actor (Tom Rooney) is called upon last-minute to replace the star of a major stage production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. He is also looking after his young granddaughter, and has no choice but to bring her to...

  • R+J

    This radically reimagined version of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet invites you into an up-to-the-minute world of sound and music, a world in which the entrenched hostilities of an older generation are challenged by the passions of young people who only want to love.

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  • Coriolanus

    He’s fearless on the battlefield – but in the pitfall-laden world of politics, he’s doomed by his contempt for the common people. See Robert Lepage's breathtaking production that explores the age-old tensions that still tear at the heart of democracy.

  • Hamlet (2016)

    A ghostly visitor with a shocking secret, a daughter devastated by loss, a deadly duel and the most famous question in all of drama: Shakespeare's iconic tragedy will hold you spellbound. Jonathan Goad is witty and courageous in the title role, but also deeply human. The film excites and surprise...

  • Love's Labour's Lost

    Four young men swear off women to devote themselves to learning - only to fall for four attractive newcomers. Shakespeare's language reaches its most virtuosic heights in a vivacious comedy that will dazzle and delight.

  • The Taming Of The Shrew

    Courtship or conquest? The breaking down of a defiant spirit - or a breakthrough that liberates a heart deprived of love? Will you ever see a battle of wills that's fiercer or funnier - or more hotly controversial?

  • Twelfth Night (2012)

    Shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, and believing her twin brother drowned, Viola adopts male disguise and enters the service of Duke Orsino, only to find herself entangled in a triangle of unrequited love. Meanwhile, in the household of the Countess Olivia, Sir Toby Belch - portrayed by the gre...