The Winter's Tales Reviews

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As London swelters in the hottest heat wave on record, the Oxford Shakespeare Company bring a cool winter’s breeze to the North Garden of Lincoln’s Inn…

The noble tragedy of the first three acts turns to high comedy and the whole cast play it to the hilt…The cast could not be a higher pedigree…the audience adored it. An ideal way to chill this summer.  What’s On ****

…And it's lovely. Shakespeare al fresco and thought through, not with any great slathering of philosophy, but as an actor's play, as entertainment. The company claim that they work with their outdoor settings for best effect and if their production of The Winter's Tale is anything to go by then it is not an over-inflated claim… Culture Wars

…the ability of Shakespeare's language to surprise and delight and how often productions fail to exploit this because they labour under the weight of the sanctity of Shakespeare's language. My favourite scene in the Oxford Shakespeare Company's production involved a group of gossiping tea-ladies who just popped Shakespeare's English around in their mouths and interspersed the Bard's words with that essential question 'Biscuit?' Brilliant! Culture Wars

Time Out Critic’s Choice

The North Garden of Lincoln’s Inn provides an appropriately pastoral setting for the diverting and occasionally outlandish proceedings…

…one of the most ghostly “Winter’s Tales” I’ve ever seen. There’s something pleasingly eerie about the experience of sitting outside as night falls…while actors hover spectrally behind your seat awaiting their next entrance.  Robert Shore Time Out

Adrian Lillie, has clearly had a lot of fun dressing the cast up in the first half in 1940’s garb, before really letting himself go with 1960’s designs when we join the cast 16 years later… Camden New Journal

The cast seems to have enormous fun and by the second half the audience were frequently laughing out loud…a reliable recipe for a lovely evening’s entertainment.

Camden New Journal