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The Winter’s Tale review – RSC and BBC film is a purist version of theatre on screen

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Covid-postponed production moves the play to the 1950s but lacks the inventiveness of the National’s recent Romeo and Juliet

his RSC production opens in a 20th-century Sicilia and modernises the play’s themes of paranoid leadership and patriarchal abuse in subtle yet powerful ways. The word “tyranny” sounds emphatic here, jumping out again and again and chiming with the postwar era in which it is situated – a 1950s Europe still riddled with fascism.

 

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