Go to Mammothshakes.com for more information, scripts and character breakdown. Show dates still TBD (likely first 2 weeks of August!)

The Winter’s Tale will be directed by Allison McDonell Page

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. Set in the present day, unity of time, place and action are hurled aside as we range 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. The second act transforms into a romantic musical comedy as Initial darkness gives way to joy and Time leads the characters to a shattering, and musical, conclusion…