Things for Medievalists to Do in South-Western Ontario

The York Corpus Christi Plays, Toronto, 7 June 2025

An All-Day Staging at the University of Toronto by Poculi Ludique Societas and the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies. For details see https://www.yorkplays.ca/

50 short MEDIEVAL plays, each one repeating at 3 different stations

On Saturday, June 7, 2025 (rain date Sunday, June 8), starting at 6:00am — and likely continuing past midnight — seventeen performance groups from across North America, organized and hosted by PLS and the CRRS, will converge on Toronto to present all of the York Plays in medieval style. We will repeat each play on replica wagon stages, across three performance stations, outdoors (no chairs!), at:

BURWASH QUAD

AT VICTORIA UNIVERSITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

89-93 CHARLES STREET WEST

TORONTO, ON, CANADA M5S 1K6

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The Stratford Festival

The Festival will be in full swing in June and from Waterloo, Stratford is about 45 minutes by car (two hours by bus). Here are some of the medievalesque plays on offer:

Dante’s Inferno, 12, 13, 14 June

As You Like It, 6, 10 June

The Winter’s Tale, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 June

Macbeth, 7, 10, 13, 14 June

Other non-medieval musicals and plays are also being staged. For details and to buy tickets (and it’s wise to plan ahead as shows begin to sell out): https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/Calendar