Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THOU METTEST with things dying, I with things new-born!" With this stirring line "The Winter's Tale" shifts from the wintry tragedy of its first part to the vernal romance of its second. Ripping apart the links of that Great Chain of Being with disease and death in the first acts, the play reassembles them with health and life in the last ones. The Loeb Ex version of this mythic renewal breathes life, but not robust good health...
...director, his cast and crew all appreciate the contrived yet atavistic cycle of the tale and the pleasure which it can effect. Yet somehow that understanding alone is inadequate to the task of captivating an audience for a winter...
...wonders as the convoluted plot unfolds what drew the director to this particular Shakespearean romance: he seems to have made only the effort necessary to relate its story. He falls short of animating the tale with any original scheme of reading or staging...
...WINTER'S TALE, by William Shakespeare. This play's last two acts feature an appearance by Autolycus, the snapper-up of unconsidered trifles who's one of the funniest characters in any play. It's also the third Shakespeare play the Loeb's put on in the last two weeks. Opens tonight at 8 at the Loeb...
Here is a cautionary tale of the future with none of the usual trappings of science fiction: no oozing monsters, no batteries of blinking, beeping machinery. Instead, we have a very deliberate and closely controlled film graced with a slow, severe beauty that makes its quiet edge of panic all the more chilling...