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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