Winnipeg Free Press By: Randall King | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Monday, Jul. 26, 2021 Save to Read Later
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 wi
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Though the theatre company Shakespeare in the Ruins stages its plays outside at the Trappist Monastery Provincial Heritage Park, it will not be hosting a live audience this season because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Though the theatre company Shakespeare in the Ruins stages its plays outside at the Trappist Monastery Provincial Heritage Park, it will not be hosting a live audience this season because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
That is not to say the ruins of the monastery will be silent. The company will film its intended 2020 production,
The Winter’s Tale, in the ruins in the coming weeks, and offer it for streaming at home this summer.
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The play opens to the beloved co-stars from
The Crown, Claire Foy and Matt Smith, staring at one another incredulously across the stage.
This time in
Lungs, instead of playing a royal couple, they take on the role of a couple debating a basic, fundamental question: should they have kids? There’s, what there’s seven billion people or so, there’s too many people and there’s not enough of everything. So really, the right thing to do, the ethical thing to do is to not contribute to that. Particularly people like us, Foy’s character says.