Stratford Festival
Payne returned to England from 1935 to 1943 to direct the Stratford Memorial Theater Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Having experimented with quasi-Elizabethan at Carnegie Tech, he was forced by the tradition of the organization's management and the restrictions of the huge old Memorial Theater to use traditional proscenium techniques,ref name=PayneMemoir/>. The experience was unhappy for Payne, and he departed in 1943. He directed no fewer than thirty seven productions at Stratford.
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