[2] The following year the company put on a production of Twelfth Night on the north terrace of Trinity College.
[4] The group began the First Canadian Shakespeare Festival, which opened on June 27, 1949, with a performance of As You Like It, at the University of Toronto's Trinity College quadrangle.
[3][7] A fundamental principle of the Grey festival was to produce historical accurate plays according to the author's intentions, a concept which was a significant addition to the post-war discussion on theater.
Stunts, fashionable slants, Freudian implications, and silly-clever ideas which are the bane of the contemporary Shakespeare theatre would be ruled out.
The accumulation of varnish and the over-painting of centuries would be stripped off and the picture shown as Shakespeare's brush had left it.