Cheek By Jowl Announces UK Dates For THE WINTER'S TALE

Cheek by Jowl today announces the UK dates for its new production of The Winter's Tale, performed with an English company. Following on from previously announced international dates, including performances in Brooklyn and Chicago in December, the production will be performed at Cambridge Arts Theatre, Citizens Theatre Glasgow, Theatre Royal Bath, Oxford Playhouse, Warwick Arts Centre, Colchester Mercury, Theatr Clwyd, Barbican and Bristol Old Vic.

One of Shakespeare's greatest plays, The Winter's Tale, though written at the same period as The Tempest, smashes all the rules that The Tempest follows. Unity of time, place and action are hurled aside as the action ranges across Europe, from court to country, from high tragedy to low comedy, across a time span of sixteen years.

The Winter's Tale tells of a delusional and paranoid king who tears his family apart. But this is the new Shakespeare, after he completed his great tragedies, and the tough struggle for redemption yields flickers of hope. Initial darkness gives way to joy as Time leads the characters to a shattering conclusion...

Declan Donnellan directs The Winter's Tale. He is joint founder of Cheek by Jowl with Nick Ormerod.

Donnellan has directed productions for the National, the RSC, the Avignon, Edinburgh and Salzburg Festivals and has received awards in Moscow, Paris, New York and London, including three Laurence Olivier Awards. In France he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and this year was presented with the Golden Lion of Venice for Lifetime Achievement. In opera he has directed Bryn Tervel, in dance, the Bolshoi Ballet and in film Kristin Scott-Thomas, Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman.

New York, Brooklyn Academy Of Music, USA (Sold Out)

6-11 December

Chicago, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, USA (Sold Out)

14 - 21 December

Nice, Théàtre National de Nice, France

18 - 19 January

Glasgow, Citizens Theatre, Scotland

24 - 28 January

Cambridge, Cambridge Arts Theatre, UK

31 January - 4 February

Murcia, Teatro Romea, Spain

9 February

Barcelona, Teatre-Auditori Sant Cugat, Spain

12 February

Bilbao, Teatro Arriaga, Spain

16 February

Avilés, Centro Cultural Internacional Oscar Niemeyer, Spain

18 February

Bath, Theatre Royal, UK

22 - 25 February

Oxford, Oxford Playhouse, UK

28 February - 4 March

Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre, UK

7 - 11 March

Colchester, Colchester Mercury, UK

14 - 18 March

Mold, Theatr Clwyd, UK

21- 25 March

Quimper, Théâtre de Cornouaille, France

29 - 30 March

London, Barbican, UK

5 - 22 April

Bristol, Bristol Old Vic, UK

25 - 29 April

Athens, Megaron - The Athens Concert Hall, Greece

5 - 7 May

Palma, Teatre Principal de Palma, Mallorca

20 May

Moscow, Chekhov International Theatre Festival, Russia

4 - 6 June

Voronezh, International Platonov Festival, Russia

9 - 10 June

For more information please visit www.cheekbyjowl.com.

Photo by Johan Persson

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