Shakespeare in Performance: Film
The Winter's Tale (1980, Jane Howell)
| Title | The Winter's Tale |
|---|---|
| Year | 1980 |
| Release Locations | GB |
| Director | Jane Howell |
| Medium | Color video |
| Length | 3 hrs, 5 mins |
| Languages | English |
| Audience | college and university general public |
| Play Connections | The Winter's Tale (interpretation) |
| Series | The Shakespeare Plays |
Description
Except for five cuts, one of which is the Dance of the Twelve Satyrs (4.4), the director elected to use the Peter Alexander script unaltered. The stylized, non-representational sets, described below by Donald Hedrick as 'ice cream cones,' were director Jane Howell's initial step toward the expressionistic mise en scène that emerged in her exciting production of the minor tetralogy, which is comprised of the three parts of King Henry VI and King Richard III (see 186, 187, 193 and 513). In abandoning realism for expressionism, she found an idiom for televised Shakespeare that was to prove powerfully attractive, though in this first experiment it lacked the sparkle of her later work
Description from Shakespeare on Screen : an International Filmography and Videography by Kenneth S. Rothwell and Annabelle Henkin Melzer. ©1990 Kenneth S. Rothwell. Cited by permission. — Added 2008-11-14
Cast Overview
Production Team and Crew Overview
Production information courtesy of: Kenneth Rothwell