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“It’s Shakespeare in the Ruff, our city’s most constantly engaging outdoor theatre company.”

Richard OuzounianToronto Star, August, 2015

"As the well-paced tension builds to a bloody climax, director Eva Barrie makes sure audiences get lots of what they’ve come to expect from the reliably excellent Ruffians: strong, engaging performances that make complex language and stories easy to follow..."

Jordan BimmNNNN, NOW Magazine, August, 2018

“Shakespeare in the Ruff can be relied on for a stimulating, unusual take on the Bard, and the company’s fifth production, Romeo & Juliet, continues the tradition.”

Jon KaplanNOW Magazine, August, 2016

“When it comes to Toronto’s outdoor summer Shakespeare game, the Ruffians are hard to beat, and Midsummer only bolsters their status as an enduring summer tradition."

Jordan BimmNNNN, Now Magazine, August, 2017

"No recent Shakespeare adaptation we've seen has been quite so bold as the fiercely feminist [Portia's Julius Caesar] from Shakespeare in the Ruff"

Carly Maga & Karen FrickerToronto Star

"So smart, so surprising, so daring. This is how you re-imagine classical work."

Kelli FoxActor/Director

"'The Winter’s Tale' bolsters Shakespeare in the Ruff’s reputation for taking the world’s most famous plays and making them surprising again"

Carly MagaThe Toronto Star, 2019

Shakespeare in the Ruff is a professional outdoor theatre company that breathes life and magic into Shakespeare’s works for Toronto’s diverse and contemporary audience. Our work lies at the intersection of Outdoor Theatre, Education, and Community Building.

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Shakespeare in the Ruff is on the traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishnaabe and the Wendat. We acknowledge them and any other Nations (acknowledged and unacknowledged, recorded and unrecorded) as the past, present and future caretakers of this land, traditional territory named Tkaronto, “Where The Trees Meet The Water”, “The Gathering Place”.