The movie—which had its world premiere this week in New York—is the first large-scale work by that one man and feature-length restoration of a short-lived play that helped propel Shakespeare into the era of modern theater. This spring, it becomes part of the current exhibition at the Stratford International Film Festival, in what is being billed as the first major international playto appear in that territory.


The notion that the play and its famous scene about frogs may be too much for British