Great Lakes Theater's 'The Winter's Tale' clowns around with tragedy, robs from comedy by Andrea Simakis

Structurally, "The Winter's Tale," first printed in the folio of 1623 and grouped with the Bard's comedies, is two plays in one: a tragedy with a pastoral spliced on the end. That dual nature makes it something of a challenge to direct, like a shrink having to deal with a patient who is weeping and raging one moment, giggling and dancing the next.

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