Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale / Shakespeare's Globe

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When Leontes, Sicilian king, becomes convinced his pregnant wife Hermione is conducting an affair with his closest friend Polixenes, King of Bohemia, he is so...

When Leontes, Sicilian king, becomes convinced his pregnant wife Hermione is conducting an affair with his closest friend Polixenes, King of Bohemia, he is so enraged he banishes her newborn child, while Hermione apparently dies of grief. Sixteen years later, the child, Perdita, having been raised in Bohemia by shepherds, is in love with Florizel, son of Polixenes, who forbids their marriage. The lovers travel to Leontes’ court seeking happiness, which they find – in ways nobody expected. Blanche McIntyre directs a new version of Shakespeare’s great play of the irrational and inexplicable. Set in a world of monsters, gods and natural disasters, travel from the stifling atmosphere of the Sicilian court to the unbuttoned joy of a Bohemian festival.

REVIEWS:

A show for the die-hard Shakespeare fans, certainly, but also an excellent introduction to those less familiar with his work. It's a theatrical experience only the Globe could offer, and one that should be grabbed with both hands[.]

-- Broadway World

Director Sean Holmes has pulled off a coup: the first director to use both of the Globe’s theatres in a single evening. It’s an obvious response to The Winter’s Tale’s two contrasting kingdoms, and – in practical terms – it works brilliantly. The claustrophobic interiors of Sicilia in the Wanamaker Playhouse (pitch perfect from designer Grace Smart) give way to the breezy openness (those “winds of March” right on cue) of the Globe itself, and Bohemia’s riotous sheep-shearing celebrations.

-- The Arts Desk



Product Description:


  • Release Date: February 24, 2023


  • UPC: 809478013525


  • Catalog Number: OA 1352D


  • Label: Opus Arte


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Period: Renaissance


  • Composer: William Shakespeare


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Shakespeare's Globe


  • Performer: Annette Badland, Zora Bishop, Adrian Bower, Priyanga Burford, Oliver Ryan, Will Keen, Luke Macgregor, Rose Wardlaw, Norah Lopez-Holden, Jordan Metcalfe, Sirine Saba, Howard Ward



Works:


  1. The Winter's Tale

    Composer: William Shakespeare

    Ensemble: Shakespeare's Globe

    Performer: Blanche McIntyre (Director), Priyanga Burford, Oliver Ryan, Will Keen, Luke Macgregor, Zora Bishop, Annette Badland, Rose Wardlaw, Adrian Bower, Norah Lopez-Holden, Jordan Metcalfe, Sirine Saba, Howard Ward