This production of The Winter’s Tale is set in the world of  today; a world of privilege, cellphones and social media. One of Shakespeare's last plays The Winters Tale begins with a couple, Leontes and Hermione, who seem to have everything: money, beauty, love, passion. Their son is thriving and and Hermione is pregnant again. Their future appears glowing with glorious possibility until Leontes, is suddenly taken over with a mad jealousy, an image in his mind he can't get out which eats away at him and everything he holds dear. After "Exit pursued by bear", the most famous Shakespeare stage direction in the cannon, the play jumps 16 years to a Bohemian paradise filled with love, laughter and song. The play's two tonally different sections remind us of the randomness of life, a life that  jumps from tragedy to comedy and back to tragedy again exploring the themes of rage, jealousy, loss, redemption, forgiveness and rebirth.