Word: nunne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this play is anchored in English manners and the English countryside, and if it is best rendered in this context, then The Winter's Tale is almost at an opposite pole. At least it was so produced by Trevor Nunn...
...Trevor Nunn fashioned The Winter's Tale as a modern fable of elegant simplicity. The neo-Edwardian dress and a few stage devices were the only indication of modernity. Nunn raised the words of Time which commence the fourth act to the level of a kind of incantation over the mystery of the play. Time says...
Leontes's jealous rage is much similar to Ford's, but its consequences are far more serious. It is one of the traits which makes him timelessly human. As Shakespeare gives it to us, however, it develops with astonishing rapidity, and Nunn used an interesting device to lend credence to this development. There are two moments, in which Leonter sees Polixenes with Hermoine, that plant the initial seeds of jealousy...
...Nunn set the scene in the half-light and intermittent flashes of the storm, and had a huge (about 12 feet tall) and very realistic bear rise out of the blackness behind Antigonus, pick him bodily up, and carry him off, the final action drowned in a scream of loud and hopeless terror, amplified, so that it reverberated in the ear drums. The whole thing was terrifying and convincing, as it should be. The switch, then, to the Shepherd and his son the Clown, was entirely in keeping with the Shepherd's words...
...cube then moved noiselessly back to the wall, the door slid shut, and the stage was clear. Before Hermione is revivified she appears as a statue. Nunn put her in the same cube Time had used behind a revolving mirror-this time it stayed upstage. Instead of drawing a curtain Paulina pushed a button, and the mirror revolved to reveal Hermione...