The Winter's Tale

The Winter’s Tale is one of William Shakespeare’s final plays, written and performed around 1609 to 1611. Widely considered one of Shakespeare’s genre-defying tragicomedies, the play is a darkly comic tale of love and loss, and was first printed in 1623 in the First Folio.

Vik received his MFA in Theatre Directing from Birkbeck, University of London and his PG Award in Teaching Shakespeare from The University of Warwick (in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company).

Vik has been associated with LAMDA since 2015 as a freelance director. In his current position, he directs and teaches across a range of LAMDA’s acting programmes. Public productions directed include Rotterdam, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, Wild Honey, Posh, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. Professional directing credits include the UK premieres of The Ice Cream Boys by Gail Louw, There or Here by Jennifer Maisel, Home by Sam Art Williams and Half and Half- The Curry Musical by Tim Reilly. International directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing in NY and The Tempest at the Rio Olympics.

Contains themes of grief, death, including death of a child, abuse and violence, and flashing lights. There may be some audience interaction.