The Winter’s Tale
“Director Nina Brazier’s edited version, cutting the action down to a single hour, compresses and consolidates the tragedy, producing a searingly intense treatment which tears at the heart.”
Charlotte Valori, Operissima
Britten Pears/Cockpit Theatre/
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival
December 2016 – August 2017
Creative team
Director: Nina Brazier
Composer: Kim Ashton
Designer: Sophie Mosberger
Lighting Designer: Damian Robertson
Producers: The Hermes Experiment
Cast
Leontes: William McGeough
Hermione: Sadie Parsons
Polixenes / First Gentleman: Finlay Cormack
Paulina: Louisa Hollway
Mamillius / Camillo / Antigonus / Officer / Second Gentleman: Christopher Adams
The Hermes Experiment:
Perdita / Soprano: Héloïse Werner
Harp: Anne Denholm
Double Bass: Marianne Schofield
Florizel / Clarinet: Oliver Pashley / Stephen Williams