Season 3 • Episode 6
LatestThanks to Charles, Lear gets canceled and Geoffrey's future at the festival is in doubt. Also Ellen finally fires Barbara. The end of the series also ends in typical Shakespearean fashion, with a wedding and a song.
This darkly comic Canadian series follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe at the fictional New Burbage Festival, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and artistic miracles that happen behind the scenes.
Writing
Bob Martin's playwright brain weaponized for TV
Acting
Paul Gross having the time of his unhinged life
Direction
Theatre craft as actual plot, not backdrop
Creators
Mark McKinney, Susan Coyne, Bob Martin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The fictional New Burbage Festival is named after actor Richard Burbage, Shakespeare's original leading man.
The series predicted the modern theatre crisis decades early—funding cuts, corporate sponsors, and the eternal war between art and commerce.
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