A FAIRY TALE AND A NEW YORK AUDIENCE.
A FAIRY TALE AND A NEW YORK AUDIENCE. How would a New York audience receive a fairy tale like CYMBELINE? A few people left at intermission. By the time of the spoken song, “Fear no more the heat of the sun”, the audience was completely silent. The final scene has either 24 or 25 plot twists (critics count them). I watched the faces of those around me. They were rapt, many with happy smiles, like the faces of children I saw at a performance of THE LION KING.