(which was awesome by the way! Shakespeare in the Park. Free tickets to either The Winter’s Tale or The Merchant of Venice daily in Central Park. This Sunday is the final performance.)
Anyway, I was hoping someone better versed in Shakespeare than me can help me out with the ending. So uh, spoilers if you aren’t familiar with the play.
So when Paulina “awakens” the statue of Hermione at the end, is she supposed to actually be using some kind of magic to *literally *make a stone statue come to life? Or are we supposed to read it as her having hidden away Hermione for the past 16 years, that Hermione did not die after all and it’s actually her *pretending *to be a statue? Either way just seems completely bizarre.
I liked the show pretty well, until the finale when for some reason the resolutions to all the plotlines happen offstage and are then told to us afterwards by a guard, and bam! everyone’s happy, all problems are solved, and they all live happily ever after. Wha? 