Word: antigonus
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...Furthermore, only Richard Snee as Antigonus seemed to remember that the mood gets lighter in the play’s second half. While the rest of the cast—unflinchingly grim and absurdly costumed in black with blue accents by Charles Shoonmaker—ended up looking like high tragedy gone to outer space. Snee’s fatalism, by contrast, was laced with much-needed humor...
...After all, Antigonus turns out to be the victim of Shakespeare’s most famous stage direction: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” It’s grim and horrible and everything, but come on. Bears are funny...
...this bear was imaginatively realized by the cast, who huddled together and devoured Antigonus before turning into a herd of sheep in the next scene. The moment is one of many in which an idea from some cast member seems to have shined through Tofteland’s clusmy direction. Another was the blessing given by the citizens of Bohemia, a wiggle of the fingers used to great comic effect...
...rises to the task of becoming a sort of female Prospero, guiding the course of events. Miss Henritze's voice does not have as wide a pitch range as one would like, but she uses what she has with impressive skill. William Larsen also repeats as her husband Antigonus, who is pursued and eaten by a (wisely stylized) bear...
...Paulina's husband Antigonus, William Larsen is forceful in defending Hermione to Leontes. When, on executing the order to expose the queen's baby daughter to fate and the elements he narrates his dream about Hermione, we actually see the queen upstage hovering in the air. Antigonus's departure is accompanied by Shakespeare's most startling stage direction: "Exit pursued by a bear," In Elizabethan days a real bear was used, such as the celebrated Sackerson mentioned in The Merry Wives of Windsor. This practice was revived in the 1948 British production, but it's a risky business...