The Winter’s Tale

Drama 180 min
Wednesday, December 4
2:00pm
Play The Winters Tale movie still - Dame Judi Dench

Due to phenomenal demand, The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare’s timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption, returns this festive season. This beautifully reimagined production, co-directed by Kenneth Branagh, features a remarkable cast that includes Dame Judi Dench as Pauline alongside Tom Bateman, Jessie Buckley, Hadley Frazer, Miranda Raison and Branagh himself.

REVIEWS OF THE LIVE PERFORMANCE:

“[A] tastefully competent, handsomely cast Bard-bothering—all crisply enunciated right down to the last, penultimately stressed syllable, sprinkled with a teensy bit of innovation but never enough to frighten the horses. For example, a frisson of homoerotic desire between Branagh’s Leontes and Polixenes (Hadley Fraser) puts his jealous rage with Hermione (Miranda Raison) in a newish light…” — Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter
“In a production unafraid to hint at the darker elements of Shakespeare’s fable, Branagh and Dench are surrounded by a first-rate team.” — Michael Billington, The Guardian
“Brilliant… [Branagh] takes the lead as the jealousy-seized Leontes alongside the great Dame Judi Dench.” — Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph
“[Branagh’s] production, superbly co-directed by him and Rob Ashford, is Shakespeare’s late romance, The Winter’s Tale, about redemption and regeneration and the miracle that is a second chance. And it reunites him—thrillingly—with Dench… This is an exceptionally well-spoken production, but a luminous Judi Dench gives one of her most moving Shakespearean masterclasses.” — Georgina Brown, Daily Mail
directed by
Blanche McIntyre
written by
Shakespeare
with
Dame Judi Dench, Tom Bateman, Jessie Buckley, Hadley Frazer, Miranda Raison, Kenneth Branagh
country
UK
production company
Warner Bros. Pictures