For a play about silence " its uncanny ability to tell the truth, to "persuade when speaking fails" " The Winter's Tale is remarkably wordy. Of the sequence of late romances only Cymbeline comes close to the dense and elliptical verbal patterning we find ourselves tangled in here. But Michael Longhurst's new production for the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is so richly cast, its verse-speaking so expressive that we see str…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:57PM on February 4, 2016