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So it’s not overly surprising that the star of “Alien” and “Avatar” might choose to come to the West End in “The Tempest,” Shakespeare’s otherworldly play. Less anticipated is the ...
His new production of The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver as a female Prospero, feels almost wilfully misconceived and under-achieved. A play that cries out for rethinking has been slammed ...
“It looks dramatic, in what has become Lloyd’s signature style of greys and blacks. Soutra Gilmour has decided to present the enchanted island where Prospero spends her time in exile after being ...
The Meteorological Forecasting Division has predicted moderate rain in some areas and snowfall in the highlands due to the influence of a Westerly low-pressure system. Meteorologist Rojan ...
Modern directors sometimes provide an equivalent, using whatever technology is at their disposal now, as Greg Doran did in 2016, introducing a digital avatar Ariel while also giving the betrothal ...
And what could be more a more fitting challenge for her than a sci-fi version of Shakespeare’s late play, The Tempest? The versatile American actress is known for many hugely different films ...
In 1957, the great John Gielgud starred as Prospero in The Tempest at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, and proclaimed that the historic venue would thereafter be “lost to musicals”. 67 years later ...
She sits alone at the front of the stage gazing out into the vast auditorium as the tempest she has conjured rages around her. Sigourney Weaver’s Prospero is a calm, focused presence in the eye ...
That Weaver’s Tempest is now taking place in a gap between the Disney blockbusters Frozen and Hercules should make it all the more special. But instead of lightning in a bottle, it’s a damp squib.
It’s a dazzling opening to Jamie Lloyd’s staging of The Tempest, one that heralds this production’s striking use of the scope of the stage. Mason Alexander Park’s Ariel descends from the ...