Christopher Gaze
February 24th, 2026
Founder of Bard on the Beach, Christopher Gaze reflects on five decades of theatre in The Road to Bard: A Legacy of Shakespeare on Canada’s West Coast (Harbour Publishing $40.00). In The Road to Bard, Gaze traces his journey from England’s Bristol Old Vic Theatre School to Canada in 1975 and from the founding of Vancouver’s Shakespeare festival in 1990 to its growth into a major cultural institution welcoming approximately 88,000 visitors annually. Along the way, he recounts unexpected detours—waiting tables, driving cattle in Montana, fundraising and steering the company through the COVID-19 shutdown—while offering a personal history of Canadian theatre over the past half-century. 9781998526284
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