While Beth Summers (Tara Sky) stands centre stage as the lights dim at the end of the Stratford Festival’s 1939 – tears flowing having just bade goodbye to her brother, friends and fellow residential-school thespians, possibly for the last time – the full weight of the play’s story falls on the audience like the final beat of a drum. Read More
Review: Stratford Festival’s 1939 balances youthful optimism, heartbreaking reality
