The Winter's Tale review " Bertie Carvel is chilling as the RSC ramps up the thrills
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonYaël Farber's production manages the problem play's shift from dark to light well, but is often opaque in meaning Male sexual jealousy drives Shakespeare's problem play before it is smoothed over by its 11th-hour happy ending. Yaël Farber's production animates the psychological terror that King Leontes (Bertie Carvel) wreaks on his pregnant wife Hermione (Madeline A…