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MHM

The Winter's Tale 

New Swan Shakespeare Festival
The Gateway Commons at UCI

Directed by Beth Lopes

Working on this show was a dream, as this is one of my favorites by Shakespeare. The concept for this show was to take it back to a European 1910 - with Sicilia inspired by a Western aesthetic while Bohemia favored an Eastern one. The music, featuring piano and various strings, followed suit.

The show presented many challenges, such as supernatural moments and a genre shift in the middle of the play. To tackle the latter, I went all in and pulled classic cartoon stock effects to create a choreographed cue that the actors could rehearse with in the space. Shifts in time were also heavily featured, as it slowed down or altered whenever some characters delivered monologues.

Production photos provided courtesy of Paul Kennedy & Beth Lopes.

© 2020 by Hunter Moody.

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