Set across a 16-year span from Mad Men to the moon landings, this new production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale imagines a world where the ghosts of fascist Europe collide with horrors of The Handmaid’s Tale, before washing up on a joyful seashore.

King Leontes rips his family apart with his jealousy but grief opens his heart. Will he find the child he abandoned before it is too late?

A moving new production directed by Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman.

Creative Team

Director Erica Whyman | Set Designer Tom Piper | Costume Designer Madeleine Girling | Lighting Prema Mehta | Music Isobel Waller-Bridge | Sound Jeremy Dunn | Movement Anna Morrissey

The Winter’s Tale is supported by RSC Production Circle members Mark Thompson and Jane Blumberg-Thompson