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Graham Abbey is a Canadian actor who has performed in film, television and stage. He is known for his roles in The Border, Stratford Festival and other theatre productions.
Graham Abbey is an actor who has appeared in films such as Defendor and Take This Waltz, and TV shows such as Covert Affairs and Reign. He is also known for his work at the Stratford Festival of Canada, where he performed in various Shakespeare plays.
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Graham Abbey was born on 24 March 1971 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for Defendor (2009), Take This Waltz (2011) and Covert Affairs (2010).
- March 24, 1971
May 17, 2013 · Stratford's Graham Abbey discusses his active lifestyle, and the merits of small-town living. Veteran stage actor Graham Abbey has good reason to stay in shape this summer: he'll be engaging in...
- Why Shakespeare?
- On The Shakespearean Villains in The News Right Now
- On Making A Directorial Debut with A “Problem Play”
- The Stratford Artifact That Changed The Game
- Encountering Shakespeare Skeptics
- Working on “Darker” Plays
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I moved to Stratford when I was very young with my mom and my sister, and I got immersed in the theatre. I was ten years old when I did my first play at the Stratford Festival. I fell in love with the poetry and the language; I enjoyed the rhythms. I used to recite it in my spare time. I was a strange child. I think that’s how I got it into my bloo...
Measure for Measure is so much about misogyny and patriarchy and that abuse of power. If you look at America right now and who they voted for, they seemed to want someone, to use Trump’s own words, “to drain the swamp.” You’ve got somebody coming in who, very much like [Measure for Measure villain] Angelo, has been brought in to bring law and moral...
I’ve been an assistant director several times, but my only directing credits so far have been Winter’s Tale last year and Measure this year. Certainly, these plays are very difficult to parse out. Measure for Measure is an elusive one—it doesn’t have a linear path. Winter’s Tale does in a way, although it gets into problems at the three-quarter mar...
Stratford has in its archives a hard copy of Measure for Measure with the cut that every director at the Festival has made in the play’s history. There have been about six productions at Stratford, and the hard copy is colour-coded so you can see what Robin Phillips cut, what Michael Langham cut, and so on. I had done my own cut, at first, and then...
For anybody who’s involved in bringing Shakespeare to life, we face the challenge of skeptics. My answer is—and no one’s got the answer—but my attempt is to say, what happens if we focus on the language, if we invest our work and time in infusing that language with thought and clarity, with great actors speaking in an intimate space? Can we make th...
Measure, in particular, is a play that lives in a slightly unsettled place for a long time. The actors feel it. I feel it. We’ve learned to just kind of embrace it, and sit in it. In something like A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there’s a lot of laughs, and there’s contentment. Measure for Measurestays unsettled all the way through and it deals with fa...
Graham Abbey is a Canadian actor and founder of Groundling Theatre, a company that stages Shakespeare and works inspired by him. He talks about his love for the Bard, his directorial debut with Measure for Measure, and the relevance of Shakespeare to current issues.
The Border: Created by Janet MacLean, Jeremy Hole, Peter Raymont, Linda Lee Tracey. With James McGowan, Graham Abbey, Jonas Chernick, Mark Wilson. The cases of the Canadian Immigration and Customs Security Squad.
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Learn about Graham Abbey's biography, filmography, and upcoming projects on The Movie Database (TMDB). See his roles in Take This Waltz, Defendor, Casino Jack, and more.
