The Winter's Tale play contains one of the most famous Shakespearean stage directions: "Exit, pursued by a bear", presaging the offstage death of Antigonus. It is not known whether Shakespeare used a real bear from the London bear-pits, or an actor in bear costume. The Royal Shakespeare Company, in one production of this play, used a large sheet of silk which moved and created shapes, to symbolise both the bear and the gale in which Antigonus is travelling. One comic moment in the play deals with a servant not realising that poetry featuring references to dildos is vulgar, presumably from not knowing what
Twist (stage play) do even better if she is murdered first. A German version entitled "Der Letzte Dreh", translated by Ursula Grutzmacher-Tabori, is available and, in 2008, Matador Books published a UK acting edition. "Twist" was also published as a Kindle Edition in 2011. The play had its US debut in Taunton, Massachusetts in 2010. Twist (stage play) Twist is a comedy stage thriller by Miles Tredinnick. Originally written in 1990, it was first produced in 1995 at the Pentameters Theatre in London under the title "Getting Away with Murder". "Twist" has a cast of three men and three women. The play is