NapaShakes - Globe on Screen: The Winter's Tale
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‘A superb and brilliantly
performed productoin’
- STAGE REVIEW
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‘A superb cast delivers
striking performances’
- THE GUARDIAN
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‘A delight; Shakespeare at his most sad,
his most human and his most joyful.”
- WHAT’S ON STAGE
The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare’s great play of the irrational and inexplicable, illustrating how uncontrollable emotions can range across gender, country, class and age. Its universe is full of monsters, gods and natural disasters with a colossal sweep that takes audiences from the stifling atmosphere of the Sicilian court to the unbuttoned joy of a Bohemian festival. Staged at the beautiful and iconic Globe Theatre in London, this production is directed by Blanche McIntyre and stars Will Keen (The Crown, Wolf Hall) as Leontes, Priyanga Burford (W1A, Marcella) as Hermione and Annette Badland (EastEnders, Father Brown) as Old Shepherd. A reconstruction of an open-air Elizabethan playhouse on the bank of the River Thames, the Globe Theatre has become a significant part of the national and international theatre landscape, celebrating Shakespeare’s transformative impact on the world. The Winter’s Tale was filmed live at Shakespeare’s Globe on Thursday 4 October 2018.
Director: Blanche McIntyre
Cast: Annette Badland, Zora Bishop, Adrian Bower, Priyanga Burford, Becci Gemmell, Will Keen, Norah Lopez-Holden, Luke MacGregor, Jordan Metcalfe, Oliver Ryan, Sirine Saba, Howard Ward, Rose Wardlaw
N/R. Running time: 175 mins (including 15 min interval).
TRAILER: https://youtu.be/8Oo123ZcfbU
NapaShakes is a nonprofit dedicated to presenting year-round professional productions of Shakespeare and classical plays with a commitment to the highest level of quality, plus dynamic community outreach and educational programs. Tapping the wellspring of Shakespeare’s work, NapaShakes pairs the theatre’s greatest actors with the Napa Valley’s most memorable wines, celebrated culinary delights, idyllic weather and spectacular stages to satisfy an audience as hungry for world-class theatre as it is thirsty for the Valley’s legendary Cabernets. For more information about NapaShakes, visit www.napashakes.org.