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The Winter’s Tale – Shakespeare’s Globe
London

The Winter’s Tale – Shakespeare’s Globe

Imagine that you go to see a play, and someone tells you everything that is going to happen next, but it is so amazing that it's hard to believe. That's when one knows the experience one is about to go through is unique. Marking the opening of the Globe's Folio 400th celebrations, The Winter's Tale, directed by Sean Holmes, takes us to a trip between the intimate and oppressive setting of Sicilia, staged in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and the open-air colorful and mostly vivid lands of Bohemia, staged in the Globe Theatre. The original five acts of the play are then organized in three acts, and the audience is led from the first hall to the second and then back inside again. As it is customary in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the empty stage greets us with the warm light of many can...