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The Winter's Tale (2005)
![Hermione [Yolanda Vazquez] and Leontes [Paul Jesson].](http://www.globe-education.org/files/imagecache/lb_slideshow/images/Winters_Tale_8_Bradshaw_copy.jpg "Hermione [Yolanda Vazquez] and Leontes [Paul Jesson]. Photo: Andy Bradshaw")
Directed by John Dove
Leontes, King of Sicilia, is convinced that his wife Hermione has committed adultery. So blind is his rage that even a proclamation from the Oracle of Apollo fails to convince Leontes of Hermione's innocence. His implacable jealousy has terrible consequence, leading to a ruptureof his lifelong friendship with the King of Bohemia, and thedeath of his wife and son.
Only Leontes' infant daughter Perdita , sent to her death but saved by shepehrds in Bohemia, survives to redeem the story.
Creative Team
Master of Play: John Dove
Master of Historical Music/ Musical Arrangements: William Lyons
Master of the Words: Giles Block
Master of Movement: Glynn MacDonald
Cast
Sam Alexander: Young Shepherd/Officer
Penelope Beaumont: Paulina
Philip Bird: Camillo
Peter Forbes: Polixenes
Colin Hurley: Autolychus
Paul Jesson: Leontes
Roger McKern: Dion/Time/Second Gentleman
Thomas Padden: Cleomenes/First Gentleman/Mariner/Servant
Edward Peel: Antigonus/Third Gentleman
Juliet Rylance: Perdita
Hayley Jayne Standing: Dorcas/Emilia/Gentleman
David Sturzaker: Florizel
Yolanda Vazquez: Hermione
Roger Watkins: Old Shepherd
Liana Weafer: Mopsa/Mamillius
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