The Washington Post, February 5th, 2009
No soliloquies have been harmed in the making of Folger Theatre's new staging of "The Winter's Tale," but no deep reservoir of poignancy has been stirred, either. The production, directed by Blake Robison, head of Bethesda's Round House Theatre, is a fairly textbook, modern-dress version of one of Shakespeare's trickiest plays, a tall tale of paranoia and vindictiveness, forgiveness and remorse.
The payoff for your forbearance toward the intricate, protracted mechanics of "The Winter's Tale" must come in spades in the evening's final scene, during which a miracle contrived by dark arts redeem...
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