On the Character of Time: At the Crease of Theology and Drama in Cheek by Jowl’s 2016 Bam Harvey Theater Production of “The Winter’s Tale”. Theater review of William Shakespeare’s The Winter Tale. Directed by Declan Donnellan, performance by Orlando James, Edward Sayer, Natalie Radmall-Quirke, Eleanor McCloughlin, Joy Richardson, Grace Andrews, David Carr, Ryan Donaldson, Sam Woolf, Peter Moreton, Sam McArdle, Joseph Black, Guy Hughes, and Tom Cawte, BAM Harvey Theater, Brooklyn, New York, 10 Dec. 2016.

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  • Trent M. SANDERS U.S.A. Fulbright Scholar University of Tennesee - Knoxville. trent.sanders.ak@gmail.com

Abstract

The character Time is omnipresent in Cheek by Jowl’s December 2016 BAM Harvey Theater production of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. Cheek by Jowl is an acting company based in London that specializes in Shakespeare. As part of the 2016 Next Wave Festival, Cheek by Jowl director, Declan Donnellan, and set designer, Nick Ormerod, produced The Winter’s Tale from December 6th-11th, 2016 at the BAM Harvey Theater, an off-Broadway theatre located in Brooklyn, New York. The specific performance this paper talks about happened December 10th, 2016.

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STUDIA UBB DRAMATICA, Volume 64 (LXIV), No. 1, March 2019

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2023-02-10

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SANDERS, T. M. (2023). On the Character of Time: At the Crease of Theology and Drama in Cheek by Jowl’s 2016 Bam Harvey Theater Production of “The Winter’s Tale”. Theater review of William Shakespeare’s The Winter Tale. Directed by Declan Donnellan, performance by Orlando James, Edward Sayer, Natalie Radmall-Quirke, Eleanor McCloughlin, Joy Richardson, Grace Andrews, David Carr, Ryan Donaldson, Sam Woolf, Peter Moreton, Sam McArdle, Joseph Black, Guy Hughes, and Tom Cawte, BAM Harvey Theater, Brooklyn, New York, 10 Dec. 2016. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Dramatica, 64(1), 243–258. Retrieved from https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbdramatica/article/view/4148

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Volume 64, No. 1, March 2019

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