Margaret Atwood: evaluation

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…I know, for about 15 years — about Canadian theater, and probably the Stratford Festival in particular, since I see that you often retweet about what they’re doing. That’s right, yeah. The Stratford Festival started in the ’50s. When it first started, it was in a tent. It was a town that had been quite a heavy railroad town and also a center of pigs. It was a pig center. If you go online and look up Slings and Arrows, you can find a very funny miniseries that sat essentially in Stratford. One of those pig jokes gets into it. I’ve been going there for a long time. I used to take my parents and the teenage kids and everybody. It’s pretty inventive. I think it does a pretty good job. What else can I tell you? The town fathers, when it first started — or the town citizens — looked at it askance because it was artistic, don’t you know? It was in the ’50s, and they had been used to railroads and pigs, and they didn’t get it that this might rejuvenate their town, which it has done. It’s one of the first festivals that brought the economic level of the venue up. Hi. What’s your favorite fairy tale and why?…

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