“No Winter’s Tale engages with snow science, mountain ecosystems, and sustainable farming practices during our current and future era of climate change.”
-Dr. Gretchen Minton
No Winter’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale through a climate-changed Intermountain West, a realm where vanishing winters reshape both landscape and lives. Minton’s adaptation preserves the original’s emotional core—jealousy, loss, and eventual reconciliation—while casting these themes into the urgent and fragile context of ecological collapse and renewal. It’s a deep, artistic fusion of Shakespearean drama with environmental science and hope.
Written and adapted by Gretchen E. Minton (Professor of English, Montana State University)
Presented by Dr. Gretchen Minton and Montana State University Center for Science, Technology, Ethics, and Society (C-STES).
Montana InSite Theatre is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that uses theatre to explore current issues, including environmental degradation, climate change, and other crises that impact both local and global communities. We aim to stage productions in site-specific locations that in and of themselves provide context and meaning to the text and images.