{"id":1167,"date":"2016-03-23T18:10:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/23\/furman-theatre-to-present-winters-tale\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:16:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:16:33","slug":"furman-theatre-to-present-winters-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-theatre-to-present-winters-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman Theatre presents &#8220;Winter&#8217;s Tale&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/beartime-colorized2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6136 lazyload\" title=\"beartime-colorized\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/beartime-colorized2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 216px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 216\/216;\" \/><\/a>The Furman University Theatre will present \u201cThe Winter\u2019s Tale\u201d by William Shakespeare Wednesday, April 10 through Saturday, April 13 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, April 14 at 3 p.m.; and again Wednesday, April 17 through Saturday, April 20 at 8 p.m. in the Furman Playhouse.<\/p>\n<p>The production is open to the public. Tickets are $15 general admission, $13 for seniors and $8 for students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Winter&#8217;s Tale\u201d\u00a0is a timeless romance combining heartbreak with love, drama with comedy, and rebirth with forgiveness.\u00a0 In two fairy tale kingdoms, one king&#8217;s jealousy leads to an obsessive rage in the wintery land of Sicilia, while another king&#8217;s pastoral homeland of Bohemia is the enchanted place where young love blooms.\u00a0Forbidden love and forlorn loss lead to a magical journey filled with song, dance, redemption and Shakespeare&#8217;s classic second chance for happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Furman theatre arts professor Maegan Azar directs the play. Assistant director is Furman alum Cortney McEniry \u201812.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, cast members include Tierney Breedlove \u201814 as Paulina, Victoria Buck \u201814 as Autolycus, Caroline Davis \u201813 as Hermione, Sam Feigenbaum \u201815 as Polixenes, Tyler Mitchell \u201813 as Leontes, Jonathan Pierce \u201813 as Camillo, SB Steagall \u201815 \u00a0as Perdita, and Stephen Trammell \u201813 as Florizel. Mamillius is played by Alexander Malvern, 11-year-old son of Furman music professor Gary Malvern.<\/p>\n<p>Set designer is theatre arts professor Rhett Bryson. Lighting is designed by Maranda DeBusk \u201813. Theatre arts professor Margaret Rose Caterisano designs costumes. Dance choreographer is Grace Bernardo \u201814. Music\u00a0is composed by Sarah Black and Braxton Ballew of Valentine Wolfe. Internationally acclaimed mask\/movement artist Doug Berky \u201895 designs and constructs the bear mask.<\/p>\n<p>For ticket information and reservations, call the Theatre Box Office at 864-294-2125.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman University Theatre will present \u201cThe Winter\u2019s Tale\u201d by William Shakespeare Wednesday, April 10 through Saturday, April 13 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, April 14 at 3 p.m.; and again Wednesday, April 17 through Saturday, April 20 at 8 p.m. in the Furman Playhouse. \u00a0Tickets are $15 general admission, $13 for seniors and $8 for students. \u201cThe Winter&#8217;s Tale\u201d\u00a0is a timeless romance combining heartbreak with love, drama with comedy, and rebirth with forgiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-theatre-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}