A Winter's Tale

EAS Performs: A WINTERS TALE

The court of Sicily is full of joy, laughter, music, dance - at least, it usually is. But it only takes one person having a spectacularly bad trip to bring a party down, particularly when that person is the host. Leontes is lashing out at everyone around him, and it’s time to move the action elsewhere - to Bohemia, a land of pastoral frolicking, hidden identities, and… bears. Lots of bears. More bears than Shakespeare could ever have anticipated.

Combining Shakespeare’s text with new material from award-winning playwright Jen McGregor, A Winter’s Tale: Pursued By a Bear turns the original play into a queer fairytale about love, trust, and bewaring of bears in unexpected places.

Tony Bittner: Hermione
Dimitris Anagnostou: Ornatus, one of the bears 🐻 / Dion
Davide Bargna: Arctus, Cleomenes, Gaoler/Officer, First Gentleman
Euan Mathers: Time / Lord / Mariner / Officer / Third Gentleman
Paul Case: Camillo
Katy Mackay: Antigonus/Clown
Lauren Crombie: Polixenes
Claire Greasley: Emilia/Mopsa
Julie Frida: Perdita
Nelly Reinhold: Leontes
Rashne Limki: Paulina
Amy Mackintosh: Mamillus/ Old Shepherd
Ennae McKnight: Horribilis/Autolycus
Melissa Malcolm: Florizel

Directed by Adam Butler
Dramaturg: Jen McGregor

Church Hill Theatre • EH10 4DR Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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