THE WINTER'S TALE " West End
Kenneth Branagh's Garrick year as actor-manager opens in unquestionable triumph. One of Shakespeare's greatest, most redemptive plays is richly served without flaw or gimmick, traditional in this l 1889 theatre but fresh, clear, heartfelt. The court of the jealous Leontes profits from being set not in antiquity but in a late Victorian " perhaps Tsarist " red-velvet palace in a Christmas season: under the tree a cosy…