The Yale University Dramatic Association, Inc

One of Shakespeare's last plays, The Winter's Tale is a story divided by time and space. A king with a tyrannical imagination destroys his family, and sixteen years later his long-lost daughter falls in love with a foreign prince. In the cosmological sense of law and order of the tragic first half and the chaotic wonderland of the pastoral-comic second half, Shakespeare asserts his power as a playwright with a sense of metatheatricality which is practically unmatched in the entire Shakespearean canon.

This production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale will treat the play as a two-part story, divided by time and space. The first part takes place in Sicilia, a prehistoric-tsarist kingdom bound by a claustrophobic ritualism and starkness. The second part takes place in the futuristic wonderland Bohemia, full of pickpockets, shepherds, and punk rock. Uniting the two are the cosmological forces of fate and prescience and the richly sentient and self-aware ensemble.

Cast
Faizaan Kisat - Antigonus/Ensemble Shepherd
Derek DiMartini - Archidamus/Jailer/Cleomenes
Raphael Shapiro - Autolycus
Emma Griffin - Bear/Sentencing Officer
Alex Kramer - Camillo
Tom Sanchez - Clown
Susan Steinman - Dancer
Carly DeFeis - Dancer
Sarah Matthes - Emilia/Dorcas
Alex Caron -First Lord/Ensemble Shepherd
Alex Steiner - First Servant/Third Gentleman
Hunter Wolk - Florizel/Dion
Willa Fitzgerald - Hermione
Jacob Liberman - Leontes
Chloe Sarbib - Mamillius/Mariner/Second Gentleman
Mila Hursey - Mopsa/Lady-in-Waiting/Second Servant
Mike Rose - Old Shepherd
Lizzie Donger - Paulina
Sarah DeLappe - Perdita
Will Turner - Polixenes


Production Staff
Cooper Lewis - Director
David Martinez - Producer
Rachel London - Stage Manager
Daniel Suarez - Artistic Consultant
Sofia Ortiz - Set Designer
Daisy Long - Lighting Designer
Elizabeth Palazzolo - Costume Designer
Taylour Chang - Sound Designer
Nick Murphy - Choreographer
Alex Hirsch - Technical Director
Charlie Croom - Master Electrician
Zach Fuhrer - Composer
Luke Kanter - Sound Engineer
Bianca Rodriguez - Props Master
Gwynedd Davis - Head Rigger
Christine Kwon - Paint Charge
Arden Rogow-Bales - Dramaturg
Jordan Marschke - Associate Stage Manager
Evin Grody - Assistant Director


Orchestra
Hazel Scher - Drums
Daniel Spector - Bass
Nolan Green - Guitar
Zach Fuhrer - Keyboard
Micah Hendler - Drums


Crew
Clyde Edwards - Assistant Producer
Meredith Davis - Assistant Stage Manager
Ming-Toy Taylor - Assistant Stage Manager
Melissa Cail - Assistant Stage Manager
Peter Gelman - Assistant Stage Manager
Seinne Fleming - Assistant Stage Manager
Amelia Urry - Assistant Master Electrician
Jon-Michael Saenz - Assistant Master Electrician
Samantha Hansen - Assistant Props Master
Amanda Chang - Assistant Sound Engineer
Luke Kanter - Assistant Rigger
Danielle Tomson - Makeup Designer
Anna Kellar - Sets Crew
Andrew Freeburg - Sets Crew
Eun Namkung - Sets Crew
Zachary Groff -