Winter’s Tale, The

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1981 production of A Winter’s Tale. Directed by Ronald Eyre with Patrick Stewart as Leontes.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 7 Feb 1983
Duration: 173 mins

Director

Ronald Eyre

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Stephen Oliver

Production Design

Chris Dyer

Cast

General: "Chris Dyer’s austere empty-space-set lets the script of this dark, late play, straight through. It’s a pure concentration on text with no extra clutter - refreshingly brave." Julia Pascal, City Limits 2. February 1982.
History: Press night at the RST 30 June 1981. The production then went to Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on to the Barbican. The RSC recording is from the Barbican staging.
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: Tatspaugh, Patricia E. The Winter’s Tale. (London: Arden Shakespeare in association with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, 2002).
[Studies the directing, staging, designing, and acting of The Winter’s Tale in Royal Shakespeare Company productions by Anthony Quayle (1948), Peter Wood (1960), Trevor Nunn , John Barton and Trevor Nunn, Ronald Eyre, Adrian Noble, Terry Hands, and Gregory Doran.

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