After 60 years as a performer, 47 Stratford seasons and a long, private struggle with cancer, she stood tall in a finale that the COVID-19 pandemic delayed but could not stop
As a theatre critic, I only caught the last stretch of the 60-year period Martha Henry spent as one of Canada’s foremost stage performers. But it never felt like I was coming in at the tail-end of a career or after a heyday., gave what will surely go down as one of her most extraordinary performances in what turned out to be the very final months of her life. It’s hard to imagine she ever gave a better one.
We now know exactly how close audiences came to missing out on this riveting performance by Henry – which thankfully, since it was performed to reduced capacity, has been filmed for posterity.V. Tony Hauser/The Stratford Festival25 years earlier at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton – as part of Stratford’s cancelled 2020 season.
But I’d like to make the argument as I mourn her today that Henry’s heyday on stage was as much this past decade as it was any other.
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