The Winter's Tale

Overview

Shakespeare tears apart nearly every rule of theatre. Low comedy interrupts high tragedy, kings jostle with thieves, and the stage is invaded by clowns, a princess, a bear and Time herself, who announces a sixteen-year interval.

Critic reviews

All the vast richness of the world dreamed up by Shakespeare shines with blinding splendour in this Winter’s Tale

Mario Llosa Vargas writing in El País (Spain)

A masterpiece

Le Figaro (France)

A beautiful twilight fantasy

El Mundo (Spain)

Throughout, Jane Gibson's perfectly calibrated choreography emphasises the meaning of each action; here it shifts from absolute stillness to destructive frenzy in the blink of an eye - It is intelligent and challenging.

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