The Winter’s Tale
Booking from: Tue, 31st March 2009
Booking to: Sat, 3rd October 2009
Price: £22.00 – £35.20
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The Winter’s Tale directed by David Farr.
Leontes is the man with the perfect life. Powerful, wealthy and surrounded by a loving family, he should be content, but instead he is ill at ease with the world around him. Isolated by a destructive jealousy, he lashes out at those closest to him, losing his wife and son and abandoning his daughter in distant Bohemia.
Sixteen years later, having grown up in a pastoral idyll, Leontes’ daughter falls in love with a young visitor, setting in motion a chain of events that could eventually reunite their scattered family.
In The Winter’s Tale Shakespeare strips away the trappings of a man’s success in a bewitchingly beautiful exploration of what constitutes true happiness.
Newly appointed RSC Associate Director David Farr returns to the RSC following his productions of Julius Caesar (2004) and Coriolanus (2003). Currently Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith, David adapted and directed The UN Inspector for the National Theatre.
The Winter’s Tale begins the next RSC long ensemble. This company of actors will perform all of the plays in this season, going on to build a repertoire over the next two years.
When?
Booking from Tue, 31st March 2009
Booking to Sat, 3rd October 2009
Where?
Courtyard Theatre
Waterside
Stratford upon Avon
CV37 6BB
Travel
Nearest Rail: Stratford-Upon-Avon
Stratford-Upon-Avon, the birthplace of Shakespeare, is in Warwickshire, about 100 miles north of London. Trains from London to Stratford (you may have to change at Birmingham) may be caught from London Euston with a journey time of about two hours.
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