Have You Ever Wanted a Second Chance? When two families are ripped apart by jealousy, it takes time, compassion, and a little magic to reunite the generations in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. By turns tragic, romantic, hilarious, and haunting, this compelling, surprising story transcends rage and regret to find romance and renewal. Raging royals, secret identities, a lost princess, an oracle, a pickpocket, and one ravenous bear make for an evening of laughter, love, and tears. plot description: When two boyhood friends are reunited, jealousy erupts, and an outraged king imprisons his wife and denies their newborn child. A generation later, across the sea, budding romance brings the two families back together, but it will take more than love and laughter to heal old wounds.