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• W788372246 abstract "Directed by Sam Mendes. Set design by Anthony Ward. Costumes by Catherine Zuber. Lighting by Paul Pyant. Hair & Wig design by Tom Watson. Sound by Paul Arditti. Music by Mark Bennett. Music direction by Dan Lipton. Casting by Nancy Piccione and Maggie Lunn. Choreography by Josh Prince. With Simon Russell Beale as Leontes, Rebecca Hall as Hermione, Morven Christie as Mamillius/Perdita, Paul Jesson as Camillo, Dakin Matthews as Antigonus, Sinead Cusack as Paulina, Josh Hamilton as Polixenes, Michael Braun as Florizel, Ethan Hawke as Autolycus, and Richard Easton as Old Shepherd/Time.1. Laurence Olivier's 1948 film version of Hamlet begins, somewhat infamously, with a voiceover that sums up Hamlet's dilemma: This is the tragedy of a man who thought too much. A similar slogan for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's recent Bridge Project production of The Winter's Tale might read as: This is the tragedy of a man who drank too much. The opening scene of Sam Mendes' sleek version of the play finds the stage strewn with half-empty glasses and bottles. At one point, even the obviously pregnant Hermione pulls out a large bottle of liquor from behind a couple of sofa cushions (though the audience does not see her drink any of it, thankfully). And, in the next scene, while Leontes is mulling over the suspected infidelity of his wife, he does so at a desk littered with papers and empty whiskey glasses. These details seem purposeful, calling attention as they do to the effects of alcohol on an individual's ability to distinguish reality from fantasy: at a crucial moment in Act One, Leontes' speech on affection is spoken while Hermione and Polixenes are seen languidly embracing in a sea of purple lighting, blurring the distinction between what is really happening onstage and what may merely be the product of Leontes' whiskey-addled brain. The overall impression is that Leontes is not simply plagued by epistemological doubt and nihilistic skepticism, but also a man adjusting poorly to middle age.2. Audiences similarly inclined to see The Winter's Tale as a kind of dysfunctional family drama would have had plenty of encouragement from this production. The play premiered shortly before the Academy Awards, precisely at the time when Revolutionary Road-Sam Mendes' other drama of disillusionment in marriage-was receiving a good amount of press attention, in part because it had been snubbed at the Oscars. (Audience members might also have recognized Richard Easton, who played the roles of Old Shepherd and Time, from Mendes' film.) In addition, the program notes for the BAM production prominently mentioned Mendes' work on Revolutionary Road, as well as his collaboration on the Bridge Project (a partnership between BAM, the Old Vic Theatre, and Neal Street Productions) with Kevin Spacey, whom Mendes directed to a Best Actor Oscar in American Beauty, his film about suburban frustration. Moreover, while Anthony Ward's set design was relatively sparse, it efficiently evoked the mundanity of modern domestic life. The boy Mamillius spent much of his time onstage either clutching a teddy bear or drawing colorful pictures with crayons, while a modern chess set sat prominently on a card table in Sicily's living room. Such details cleverly alluded to the idea of childhood and adult play, which Shakespeare's text purposefully confuses in Act One, but they also helped to imbue the setting with an aura of familiarity.3. Certainly, contemporary renditions of The Winter's Tale are hardly a new thing, especially in New York. In William Burton's 1856 production of The Winter's Tale at his theatre in Chambers Street, New York (one of the first American stagings of the play to use a mostly unadulterated version of the Folio text), Hermione appeared a classic Victorian gentlewoman, Bohemia was set amid rustic corn fields, and Autolycus came off as a Wall Street capitalist (Bartholomeusz 101-7). Likewise, in the BAM production, Shakespeare's Sicily seemed closer to the New York financial district than to Renaissance Italy, an impression reinforced by the fact that Bohemia looked like a Coplandesque vision of Appalachia. …" @default.
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