SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY

By Eduardo de Filippo

In a new English version by Donato Santeramo and Antoni Cimolino

A Stratford Festival Commission

World Première Translation

Directed by Antoni Cimolino

Passion, pride and pasta

In this comic masterpiece, a lively Neapolitan household is thrown into turmoil when a simmering marital rift between the family matriarch and her withdrawn husband comes to a boil. As emotions flare and generations clash, laughter and love guide the family toward reconciliation and a deeper understanding of one another.

MEIGHEN FORUM EVENTS

CAST & CREATIVE

CAST

Langham Director's Workshop, 2015/2017

2026: Director of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Peppino in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 27th season.

2026: Donna Rosa in Saturday, Sunday, Monday and appears in The Tempest. Stratford debut. Elsewhere:The Master Plan (Crow's/Soulpepper/Aquarius); Mad Madge (Nightwood); Wildwoman (Soulpepper): Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure (Canadian Stage): Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth (SLSF): Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night's Dream (Citadel). Film/TV:Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Doc, Titans, Culprits. As playwright: After the Rain with Suzy Wilde (MSC/Tarragon/NAC), Mad Madge (Nightwood/Neptune), Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) (Nightwood/Crow's/Neptune/GCTC). As television writer: Sullivan's Crossing, Hudson & Rex, CBC, Bell/Crave originals. Awards: Dora nominations, twice named Top Ten Toronto Theatre Artist, Tom Hendry Comedy Award. Et cetera: Rose thanks Antoni and dedicates this season to the Donna Rosas of her life: Teresa Napoli, Diane D'Aquila, and the dear departed, Antonia Pisciuneri.

2026: Antonio in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 19th season. 50 plus productions. Favourites include Wolsey in Henry VIII, Luce in Comedy of Errors, Glenn Gould in Glen, Macbeth in Macbeth, Pistol in Henry V, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the first six Wingfield one-person plays. Rod has performed the Wingfield series (by Dan Needles) for forty years, almost 5,000 performances in every major Canadian theatre and in the United States. Other credits include Johnny Pateen Mike in The Cripple of Inishmaan (Theatre Calgary), John Proctor in The Crucible (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), Professor in Oleanna (Grand Theatre, London and the National Arts Centre). Training: M.A. University of Toronto. Awards: Dora Mavor Moore, Sterling, Gemini, "Critics' Award" (Sarasota), Order of Canada (2017), City of Stratford Bronze Star Award (2017).

2026: Aunt Meme in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 33rd season.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2002

2026: Antonio in The Tempest, Luigi Ianniello in Saturday, Sunday, Monday and understudy in Waiting for Godot. 16th season. Stratford (selected): George Tesman (Hedda Gabler), Anthony Calderon (Salesman in China), Calogero Di Spelta (Grand Magic), Don Armado (Love's Labour's Lost), Iago (Othello), Dr. Caius (The Merry Wives of Windsor), James Tyrone Jr. (Long Day's Journey Into Night), God the Son (Paradise Lost), Pentheus (Bakkhai), Laurent (Tartuffe), Biondello (The Taming of the Shrew), Scrub (The Beaux' Stratagem), Andrei (Three Sisters), Apollodorus (Caesar and Cleopatra), Roderigo (Othello), Flaminius (Timon of Athens). Elsewhere: Ruby and the Reindeer (Here For Now); A&R Angels (Crow's Theatre); Pride and Prejudice, Robin Hood (Globe Theatre); A Doll's House (Montgomery/TNB). Film/TV: Fargo, Suits, Republic of Doyle, Murdoch Mysteries, BOTS. Training: National Theatre School of Canada; Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Awards: Tyrone Guthrie Award, John Hirsch Award, and the Richard Monette Travel Grant.

CREATIVE

(he/him)

2026: Artistic director of the Stratford Festival. Director of The Tempest and Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 39th season. Stratford: Directing credits include The Winter's Tale; London Assurance; Grand Magic; Richard III; The Miser; Birds of a Kind; The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Tempest; Napoli Milionaria!; The School for Scandal; Macbeth; The Hypochondriac; Hamlet; The Alchemist; King Lear; The Beaux' Stratagem; Mary Stuart; The Merchant of Venice; Cymbeline; The Grapes of Wrath; Bartholomew Fair; Coriolanus; As You Like It, featuring original music by Barenaked Ladies; King John; Love's Labour's Lost, with Brian Bedford; Twelfth Night, with William Hutt; The Night of the Iguana; and Filumena, with Richard Monette. A crowning achievement of his tenure as artistic director is the building of the new Tom Patterson Theatre, which opened in 2022, winning a number of architectural awards. He was also instrumental in establishing the Festival's Endowment Foundation, which now stands in excess of $120 million, as well as in the renovation of the Avon Theatre and the creation of the Studio Theatre. Elsewhere: The Canadian première of ENRON (Theatre Calgary); Twelfth Night (Attic Theatre, Detroit); A Woman of No Importance (Hilberry Theater, Detroit). A champion of the arts and culture, Mr. Cimolino served as the founding chair of Culture Days, a nationwide celebration of arts and culture in Canada. He has initiated collaborations with several prestigious theatre companies, including Montreal's Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Ottawa's National Arts Centre, New York's Lincoln Center and City Center, San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater and Chicago Shakespeare Theater.