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Steve Cranstoun helps his son Max, 1, in a hobbyhorse tilting game during a Shakespeare festival in Stratford on Saturday.
Taranaki’s Shakespearean centre celebrated the bard with a morning of family fun and games on Saturday. A Shakespearean festival was held as part of Stratford’s monthly market day, and had Prospero Place bustling, with plenty of Elizabethan fashion on show as well as colourful flags.
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Eli Cranstoun tries out a lance and hobbyhorse at the festival. It was organised by the recently formed Stratford Shakespeare Trust, which plans to start an annual month-long festival during William Shakespeare’s birth and death month of April.