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 in Canada, and 10 in the United States. It was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling one million copies in the latter country. A same titled home video was released in 1982 that documents the band on the "Moving Pictures" tour. "Exit...Stage Left" was voted the ninth best live album of all time by "Classic Rock" magazine in 2004. Side two of "Exit...Stage Left" was recorded from June 10–11, 1980 at The Apollo in Glasgow, Scotland, during the band's supporting tour for their seventh studio album, "Permanent Waves". The remaining three sides were recorded on