Though his concept is not a total success, director and lead performer Tim Crouch unweaves Shakespeare’s valedictory play in the candlelit wooden space of the Wanamaker Playhouse and remakes it into a ...
It is, quite literally, two performances rolled into one. Onto the stage they tumble — four arms, four legs, two torsos, two heads — to embody a single character: Caliban, the vengeance-seeking ...
Last winter, at the Studio Theatre at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Canadian actor Antoine Yared played Caliban in “The Tempest.” He stood, centre stage, looking out over the audience as he ...
So wrote critic Hallett Smith of the lead character of “The Tempest,” in the revered 1974 Riverside Edition of Shakespeare’s 37 plays, long poems and sonnets. Smith was specifically discussing ...
Review: The Tempest, directed by Kip Williams, Sydney Theatre Company. The Tempest, first performed in 1611 and probably Shakespeare’s last solo-written play before his late collaborations with John ...