Late spring in Oslo, Ontario. The annual Ibsen Festival begins with auditions, then rehearsals, and, finally, performances.

This year, the Ibfest features productions of five classic plays: "The Twins," a renaissance play in the, er, tradition of Shakespeare; "Virtue Slandered," a restoration comedy in the, um, fashion of Sheridan; "The Raj," a nineteen century look at those quirky, madcap, but well-meaning Brits in a backward society (it s a musical ); "Pantilous in Crete," a classic Greek tragedy about an Athenian, having offended Zeus, who is doomed to live a life of horrors; and the...