Rsc The Winter's Tale

threat and horror

A king shouts aggressively at his pregnant wife and grabs her roughly while accusing her of infidelity. He later threatens to ‘dash out’ their baby’s brains and commands that the woman and child be thrown into a fire, although he subsequently commutes the sentence. Another man says that if he learned that his daughters were not his biological offspring he would ‘geld’ them so that they couldn’t bear children. Another scene implies that a man is being fatally attacked by a wild animal; we see him yelling and flailing and hear the creature growling, but the attack is stylised and devoid of bloodshed.

sex

A man becomes obsessed by the false belief that his wife has been unfaithful and that their child is not his. There are mild references to adultery, ‘getting wenches with child’, and 'tumbling in the hay', in addition to uses of the terms ‘bastard’, 'cuckold', 'harlot', ‘bawd’, 'bed-swerver', 'strumpet' and 'doxy'.

additional issues: There are mild scenes of emotional upset. Other issues include brief and infrequent references to suicide.

mild threat, sex references, language

Classified Date:

18/04/2022

Version:

2D

Use:

Cinema

Distributor:

Trafalgar Releasing Ltd

threat and horror

A king shouts aggressively at his pregnant wife and grabs her roughly while accusing her of infidelity. He later threatens to ‘dash out’ their baby’s brains and commands that the woman and child be thrown into a fire, although he subsequently commutes the sentence. Another man says that if he learned that his daughters were not his biological offspring he would ‘geld’ them so that they couldn’t bear children. Another scene implies that a man is being fatally attacked by a wild animal; we see him yelling and flailing and hear the creature growling, but the attack is stylised and devoid of bloodshed.

sex

A man becomes obsessed by the false belief that his wife has been unfaithful and that their child is not his. There are mild references to adultery, ‘getting wenches with child’, and 'tumbling in the hay', in addition to uses of the terms ‘bastard’, 'cuckold', 'harlot', ‘bawd’, 'bed-swerver', 'strumpet' and 'doxy'.

additional issues: There are mild scenes of emotional upset. Other issues include brief and infrequent references to suicide.

Classified date

18/04/2022
Language

English

Director(s)

Erica Whyman

Production Year

2021

Release date

28/04/2022

Genre(s)

Comedy, Drama, Performance

Approx. running minutes

177m

Cast

Alice Blundell, Alfred Clay, Ben Caplan