Kenneth Branagh’s The Winter’s Tale is better than any I can recall

The Winter’s Tale; All On Her Own/ Harlequinade

Garrick Theatre, until 16 January 2016

Kenneth Branagh opens his West End tenancy with Shakespeare’s inexplicably popular The Winter’s Tale. We start in Sicily where Leontes and his queen Hermione are entertaining Polixenes, the king of Bohemia. The design is heavily Germanic. Crimson drapes shroud the grey marble columns. A massive fir tree, twinkling with candlelight, is rooted in an ornamental toboggan.

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TaggedJudi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Shakespeare, Terence Rattigan, The Winter Tale, Theatre, Zoë Wanamaker

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Kenneth Branagh’s The Winter’s Tale is better than any I can recall

And his Terrence Rattigan double bill, also at the Garrick Theatre, is also worth shelving out for

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