Globe to Globe: The Winter's Tale (2012)
Performed in Yoruba with English subtitles. Yoruba folk tales inform The Renegade Theatre's magical production where Leontes becomes Sango, the God of Thunder, and Hermoine is Oya, the Warrior Spirit of the Wind.
'A sad tale's best for winter.'
Part of the 2012 Globe to Globe Festival.
The Renegade Theatre initiated the Theatre@Terra project in 2007, where plays were produced twice every Sunday in Lagos without interruption for three and a half years - a feat unparalleled in modern Nigeria. The company's patron is Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. Yoruba folk tales inform this magical new production where Leontes becomes Sango, the God of Thunder, and Hermoine is Oya, the Warrior Spirit of the Wind.
Synopsis
When Leontes, Sicilian king, becomes convinced his pregnant wife Hermione is conducting an affair with his closest friend Polixenes, King of Bohemia, he is so enraged he banishes her newborn child, while Hermione apparently dies of grief. Sixteen years later, the child, Perdita, having been raised in Bohemia by shepherds, is in love with Florizel, son of Polixenes, who forbids their marriage. The lovers travel to Leontes’ court seeking happiness, which they find – in ways nobody expected.
Cast
Olawale Adebayo
LEONTES
Olarotimi Fakunle
POLIXENES
Kehinde Bankole
HERMIONE
Idiat Abisola Sobande
PAULINA
Olasunkanmi Adebayo
CAMILLO
Adekunle Smart Adejumo
ANTIGONUS/
AUTOLYCUS
Adisa Moruf Adeyemi
LORD/CLOWN/
HOOLIGAN
Anike Alli-Hakeem
EMILIA/MOPSA/
DORCAS
Oluwatoyin Alli-Hakeem
PERDITA/COURTIER
Joshua Ademola Alabi
MAMILUS/GUARD/
FLORIZEL
Amos Oluronbi Olutokun
OLD SHEPHERD
Motunrayo Orobiyi
TIME
Taiwo ‘Keleko’ Adesoji
HOOLIGAN
Creatives
Oluwole Oguntokun
DIRECTOR
Tade Ipadeola
TRANSLATION
Faith Ogbu
COSTUME DESIGN
Ian Russell
DIRECTOR FOR THE SCREEN