The Winter's Tale / reviews
DNEVNIK, Monday, 24 December 2007, Tanja Lesničar - Pučko
Time for Fairy Tale, Time for Laughter
A hall used in such a way that we can see a long podium through the translucent net, above it some twinking glass spheres, behind it windows and the winter sky. To this bare plain enter the quite bare, but covered with warm chess-board black and white crowns (costumography Jelena Leskovar) Sicilian king Leontes (Branko Završan), pregnant queen Hermione (Lane Stranič) and Czech king Polixenes (Milan Tomašik)(...) In the second part, the events follow more smoothly, more dynamically: it starts on Czech soil with the meeting between the beautiful shepherd girl, the not-meant-to-be princess (Manca Krnel) and the king's son (Akira Hasegawa). Krnel introduces into the play some exceptional movement and actor's energy, some shift from the before concealed, ironic half-play half-choreography. Mateja Rebolj?s vagabond instep is also excellent and Matija Stipanič in the role of the shepherd dog and noblemen Camillo, and the justly Paulina, a debutante on stage Mojca Jug. The events happily follow disentangles, between the "chorus" estrangements which are provided by Clown (Jose), and finally - marriage.
