Theater
The Winter's Tale
Bank of America presents The Bridge
Project
Produced by BAM, The Old Vic & Neal Street
Productions
The Winter's Tale
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Sam Mendes
Set design Anthony Ward
Costume design Catherine Zuber
Lighting design Paul Pyant
Sound design Paul Arditti
Hair & wig design Tom Watson
Illusions Peter Samelson
Associate Director Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Dialect Coach Timothy Monich
Casting Nancy Piccione and Maggie Lunn
Music Mark Bennett
Music direction Dan Lipton
Choreography Josh Prince
Beginning in January of 2009, some of the finest talents
of New York and London theater converge at BAM to kick off an
extraordinary venture-The Bridge Project-an unprecedented
three-year, transatlantic partnership uniting BAM, The Old Vic, and
Neal Street Productions. Academy Award winner (American
Beauty) Sam Mendes, last at BAM with Uncle
Vanya andTwelfth Night (2003 Spring
Season), returns to direct a formidable group of actors in an
ocean-spanning double bill of revered classics:
The Cherry Orchard and The
Winter's Tale.
Simon Russell Beale, Sinéad Cusack, and Rebecca Hall from
the UK; and Richard Easton, Josh Hamilton, and Ethan Hawke from the
US take the stage in Shakespeare's magical testament to the follies
of hasty judgment and the force of love as a means of
redemption.
Cast: Simon Russell Beale+, Michael Braun+, Selina
Cadell+, Morven Christie+, Sinéad Cusack+, Richard Easton§, Rebecca
Hall+, Josh Hamilton§, Ethan Hawke§, Paul Jesson+, Aaron Krohn§,
Dakin Matthews§, Mark Nelson§, Charlotte Parry§, Gary Powell+,
Tobias Segal§, Jessica Pollert Smith+, Hannah Stokely+
Musicians: Dan Lipton, Dana Lyn
Stage Management: Jane Pole, Kevin Bertolacci, Cat
Fiabane+
+ Indicates that artists are appearing with the permission
of Actors' Equity Association.
§ Indicates that artists are appearing with the permission
of UK Equity, incorporating Variety Artistes' Federation, pursuant
to an exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity. The
Producers gratefully acknowledge Actors' Equity Association for its
assistance of this production.
Co-commissioned by and produced in association with Athens
& Epidaurus Festival, The Edge® Auckland (NZ), Ruhrfestspiele
Recklinghausen, The Singapore Repertory Theatre, Teatro Español de
Madrid