Jordin Hall, left, as Newman and Josue Laboucane as Nick in The Art of War, now playing at the Stratford Festival.

Title : The Art of War

Written by : Yvette Nolan

Performed by : Josue Laboucane, Jordin Hall, Jenna-Lee Hyde, Julie Lumsden, Rylan Wilkie

Directed by : Keith Barker

Company : Stratford Festival

Venue : Studio Theatre

City : Stratford, Ont.

Year : Runs to Sept. 27

Long before wars were live-streamed across social media, they were captured through brushes and paint. For most Canadians in the early 20th century, war was something that happened on the periphery of everyday life, on the radio and in newspapers; only through paintings and, later, photographs, did the gruesome, smelly, wholly visual realities of the battlefield make their way into this country’s c

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