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
Exit...Stage Left (video) The videocassette and laserdisc versions are currently out-of-print. In 2006, a DVD version of the original production was released as part of the DVD box set, titled "Rush Replay X 3" with its audio re-mastered in 5.1-channel Dolby Surround by Rush guitarist and co-producer Alex Lifeson. In 2007, the DVD version of "Exit...Stage Left", as it was included in "Rush Replay X 3", was released as a single, stand-alone DVD. The concert footage documented in "Exit... Stage Left" was filmed March 27, 1981, at the Montreal Forum, in Montreal, Quebec. All songs are part of the live performance unless specified