The Winter's Tale (Vol. 81) | Charles Isherwood (review date 3 February-9 February 2003)
Charles Isherwood (review date 3 February-9 February 2003)
SOURCE: Isherwood, Charles. “Off Broadway, The Winter's Tale.” Variety 389, no. 11 (3 February-9 February 2003): 43.
[In the following review, Isherwood acknowledges the difficulty faced by Barry Edelstein in directing a modern-day production of The Winter's Tale, but notes that the performance suffered not from the efforts to reconcile the two worlds, but from the lackluster acting of the cast.]
With their preposterous, often gruesome plots and occasional dabblings in the supernatural, Shakespeare's late romances do not take easily to modern-dress productions. In Barry Edelstein's sober but sapless production of The Winter's Tale at the Classic Stage Co., for example, the oracle of Delphi makes its pronouncement via a reel-to-reel tape recorder wheeled onstage—a deflatingly mundane image, even if the voice, amusingly, is that of the aptly august Walter...
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