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...room was an evocative setting for the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s new production of Shakespeare’s “The Winter??��s Tale,” directed by Curt L. Tofteland and produced by Sara Stackhouse. Though there were scenes of great humor, emotional depth, and rapturous melodicism—it is Shakespeare, after all—the cast (occasionally) and the production team (almost always) were generally not up to the script they had to work with...
...Winter??��s Tale” is usually called one of Shakespeare’s romances, which is a cheap way of saying that it doesn’t fit nicely into the categories of Comedy, Tragedy, or History. In the first half of the play, King Leontes (Ricardo Pitts-Wiley) wrongly suspects that his wife Hermione (Paula Langton) is pregnant by his friend King Polixenes of Bohemia (Joel Colodner...
...Bohemia is where the mood of “A Winter??��s Tale” shifts into the realm of comedy, but while the actors deftly managed the switch, the production barely differentiated between Leontes’ palace and the pastoral oceanside kingdom. Lighting Designer (a.k.a. “light switch operator”) Caleb Wertenbaker’s visual palette was lamentably consistent throughout the production: the lights stayed...
...Autolycus who makes the happy ending of “A Winter??��s Tale” possible. Perdita is reunited with the penitent Leontes, whose reappearance on the stage is welcome and touching. And Florizel, who would not have been allowed to marry a lowly shepherd’s daughter, is thrilled to discover that his beloved is actually a princess. Here, as in so many other places in Shakespeare, nobility shines through any disguise...
While Cantabrigians shouldn’t necessarily count on next winter??��s weather to be as erratic, Jacob said they should expect more “freaky” warm-weather events from global warming...