Winnipeg Free Press
By: Randall King
| Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Monday, Jul. 26, 2021
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There’s some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look/ With an aspect more favourable.”
There’s
some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look/ With an aspect more favourable."
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So says the queen Hermione upon being wrongfully accused of adultery and banished by her jealous husband Leontes in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.
Patience proved to be an operating principle for this long-delayed project, which was announced back in December 2019 by Shakespeare in the Ruins’ artistic director Rodrigo Beilfuss as the annual 2020 promenade production. It was to have been performed last year in both French and English at Trappist Monastery Provincial Heritage Park as a co-production with the French-language company Théâtre Cercle Molière.