The Winter's Tale Cast and Creatives Close Hermione Madeline Appiah Previous RSC includes: Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew Theatre includes: Cymbeline (Globe), Kerry Jackson, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Here We Go; Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre), Tina Turner The Musical (Aldwych), Hamlet (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Hotel Cerise (Theatre Royal Stratford), Iyalode of Eti (Utopia Theatre/Rich Mix/Arcola), In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play (St James Theatre), The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic), Speechless (Shared Experience), Off the Endz (Royal Court), Mother Goose (Greenwich Theatre), It Felt Empty When the Heart Went at First… (Arcola/Clean Break), Arabian Nights (New Vic), Dionysis Unbound (Bridewell Theatre), 200 Years, Cinderella (Watford Palace), The Wedding Dance (Birmingham Rep/Tour), Restoration (Oxford Stage Company), I Have Before Me… (Calypso), Brezhnev’s Children (BAC), Ms Ross: The Lady and Her Music (Neptune Theatre) Television and Film includes: Death in Paradise, Blood of My Blood, Black Mirror, Jungle, The Box, In the Long Run, Elephant, King for a Term, Partners in Crime, Doctors, Gavin and Stacey, EastEnders, The Bill, Holby City Leontes Bertie Carvel Previous RSC includes: Matilda The Musical (Stratford/West End/Broadway) Theatre includes: Pygmalion, The 47th, The Hairy Ape (Old Vic), INK (Almeida/West End/Broadway), Bakkhai, Rope (Almeida), Damned By Despair, The Man of Mode, The Life of Galileo, Coram Boy (National Theatre), Doctor Dee (Manchester International Festival), The Pride (Royal Court), The Circle (Chichester/Tour), Parade (Donmar), Faustus (Etcetera), Professor Bernhardi, Rose Bernd (Arcola), Macbeth (Union Theatre), Revelations (Hampstead) Television includes: A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms, Dalgliesh, The Crown, The Sister, The Pale Horse, Baghdad Central, The Crown, Doctor Foster, Coalition, The Wrong Mans, Babylon, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Restless, Hidden, The Crimson Petal & The White, Just William, Sherlock, Midsomer Murders, Waking The Dead, Primeval, John Adams, Doctor Who, Holby City, The Genius of Beethoven, Bombshell, Agatha Christie: A Life In Pictures, The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon, Hawking Film includes: The Tragedy of Macbeth, Les Miserables Trained at: RADA Paulina Aïcha Kossoko Previous RSC includes: Kyoto, The Taming of the Shrew Theatre includes: The Vote (Donmar Warehouse), Antony & Cleopatra (Chichester Festival Theatre and Liverpool Playhouse), Welcome To Thebes, The Observer (National Theatre), La Dispute (Abbey Theatre Dublin), Yours Abundantly (Gillian Plowman Productions), Richard III (Southwark Playhouse), Blithe Spirit (Watford Palace), The Evocation of Papa Mas (Told By An Idiot), The Magic Carpet (Lyric, Hammersmith), Celestina (Birmingham Rep/Edinburgh International Festival), Signes de vie (Igi Theatre Company), The Vagina Monologues (Arts Theatre), Monkey (Young Vic), Wedding Story (Soho Theatre), Andromache (Living Pictures), Macbeth, Yerma (BAC), The Old Curiosity Shop (Southwark Playhouse), The Cherry Orchard, Demons and Dybbuks, The Black Dahlia and Buried Alive (Method and Madness), The Two Gentleman of Verona (Globe), Antony and Cleopatra (Riverside Studios), Julius Caesar (Alley Theatre, Houston), Inheritance (Eastern Angels) Film includes: Wasted, Radiator, The Fever and Claude Chabrol’s La comédie du pouvoir Television includes: Sick Note, Skins, In Deep, Coronation Street, Casualty, Eastenders, Doctors, Kingmakers. Various productions for BBC Radio/World Service including The Number One Ladies Detective Agency and Today Polixenes John Light Previous RSC includes: The Giant, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, The Seagull, In The Company Of Men A Patriot For Me Theatre includes: Little Foxes (Young Vic), Watch on the Rhine, Luise Miller (Donmar Warehouse), The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (The Bridge Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Theatre Royal Bath), The Son (The Kiln Theatre & Duke of York’s Theatre), Mary Stuart (Duke of York’s Theatre, Almeida), The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Globe), Three Days in the Country, The Night Season (National Theatre), The Blackest Black, My Boy Jack (Hampstead Theatre), Taken at Midnight (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End), Julius Caesar (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Carmen Disruption, The Master Builder, The Tower, Certain Young Men (Almeida), Apologia, Clocks and Whistles (Bush Theatre), True West (Sheffield Crucible), Hedda Gabler (Dublin Gate Theatre), Thom Pain (based on nothing) (Print Room) Screen includes: Showtrial, Around the World in 80 Days, Father Brown, Silk, North and South, Cambridge Spies, Love in a Cold Climate, Aristocrats, Holding On, Atlantis, Mars, Murder in Provence, Maigret, Endeavour, DCI Banks, Band of Brothers, De Gaulle, Albert Nobbs, Scoop, Partition, Heights, The Lion in Winter, Trance, Dk2, 5 Seconds to Spare, The Ascension, Benedict Arnold, Agent Hamilton, A Rather English Marriage, Investigating Sex and Purpose Previous Next Cast Hermione Madeline Appiah Leontes Bertie Carvel Paulina Aïcha Kossoko Polixenes John Light Creatives Director Yaël Farber Set & Costume Designer Soutra Gilmour Lighting Designer Tim Lutkin Composer Max Perryment Movement Director Imogen Knight Fight and Intimacy Director Yarit Dor Casting Director Julia Horan CDG Dramaturg Drew Lichtenberg Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon 12 Jul - 30 Aug 2025 Book Tickets Running time: To be confirmed About the play Cast and Creatives The Plot Assisted Performances Related events More Less About the play Cast and Creatives The Plot Assisted Performances Related events In This Section About the play Yaël Farber directs Shakespeare's enigmatic story of love, loss and rebirth. Read More The Plot A short summary of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Find out more Assisted Performances Find out about our assisted performances for The Winter's Tale. Find out more Related events Find out more about our production of The Winter's Tale and how it was created with our series of events. Find out more Past productions Find out more about some of our key past productions of The Winter's Tale. Read More You may also like
