“Des McAnuff has unquestionably raised the festival’s profile, in Canada and around the world – but that hasn’t stopped certain observers from wondering whether he was the right man to run it.” His controversially free-wheeling approach to Shakespeare, going for visual stimulation and flash even at the expense of the text, differs wildly from the work of his successor, Antoni Cimolino, which “is known for its fidelity to what the playwright set down on the page.”