Jeanette Winterson

Picture a beautiful lady - fine clothes, long red hair, astride a white horse, followed by a falcon. She is riding through Pendle Woods. It's the Daylight Gate - that spot of time when daylight turns into night. And in the centre of the woods, watching and waiting, a group of feral, desperate women are gathering.

Jeanette Winterson's version of Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale' vibrates with echoes of the original but tells a contemporary story of betrayal, paranoia, redemption and hope. Time itself is a player in this game of high stakes that will either end in tragedy or forgiveness, showing us that, however far we have been separated, whatever is lost sh