Read the following passage.
A. On the night of 13 July 1953, the Stratford Festival opened its first season with Richard III, directed by Tyrone Guthrie. The star Alec Guinness played the title role, and the performance took place on an open stage under a giant canvas tent. The season's second production, All's Well That Ends Well, opened the following night with Irene Worth as Helena. Both plays met with critical acclaim, and the initial four-week run was extended to six weeks. The young company included William Hutt and Douglas Rain, who later became major figures in Canadian culture.
B. In 1951, Stratford businessman Tom Patterson formed a committee to explore an annual drama festival in his hometown on the Avon River, about 177 kilometres west of Toronto. His main aim was to save Stratford's failing economy. On 22 January 1952, City Council gave him $125 to seek artistic advice in New York. He could not reach Laurence Olivier there, but theatre pioneer Dora Mavor Moore put him in touch with Guthrie, who became the first artistic director. In May 1953 the project almost ran out of money. Contractor Oliver Gaffney kept his men working until late donations saved it.
C. Guthrie wanted to present Shakespeare on a stage that brought actors and audience close together, as in Shakespeare's own time. The designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch drew on the Elizabethan apron stage as well as ancient Greek amphitheatres and Roman arenas. Her stage is a platform that pushes out into the audience, with a balcony, trap-doors, nine acting levels and eight major entrances. Two passages known as vomitoria run diagonally from the stage into tunnels under the auditorium. The theatre seats more than 1,800 people on three sides of the stage, yet no spectator is more than 19.8 metres away.
D. The tent housed the stage for four seasons, and a permanent Festival Theatre, with a circular floor plan and a roof that echoes the tent, opened in 1957. The festival bought the Avon Theatre in 1963 and in 1971 began leasing a space by the river that later became the Tom Patterson Theatre. In 2002 it added the Studio Theatre, with seating for 260. A new 600-seat Tom Patterson Theatre opened in 2022 after pandemic delays. The 2024 season attracted 430,000 people, and another 46,000 streamed productions online. The first season lasted six weeks, but the 2026 season runs from 21 April to 1 November across four stages.
E. Not given in any of the above paragraphs.
Decide which paragraph, A to D, has the information given in each statement below. Select E if the information is not given in any of the paragraphs.