Bingley Little Theatre’s Kaleidoscope youth group is turning to the Bard for its latest production.
This version of A Winter’s Tale is set in the early 1950s, in Sicilia, where King Leontes of Sicilia is visited by his childhood friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia.
Believing his pregnant wife, Hermione, is having an affair with Polixenes, Leontes orders his servant, Camillo, to poison the Bohemian king.
Instead, Camillo warns Polixenes of the plans to kill him, and the two men flee Sicilia.
Furious at their escape, Leontes publicly accuses his wife of infidelity, declares her unborn child illegitimate and throws her into prison.
When the queen gives birth to a girl, Leontes orders the baby to be abandoned.
And 16 years later Polixenes’s son, Prince Florizel, falls in love with a shepherd girl, Perdita...
A Winter’s Tale runs at Bingley Little Theatre until May 4. Ring (01274) 567983.
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