In The Tempest Prospero enslaves Caliban. He takes control of Caliban’s island, forces him to use his language and controls him with magic. Some productions use Caliban’s character to explore ...

She doesn’t try to make her language Shakespearean, but her characters naturally ... inevitable conclusion in Miranda and Caliban just as he does in The Tempest: Miranda must leave the island ...

particularly when Caliban emerges from a pit at center stage. The story of “The Tempest,” though, becomes a bit hard to follow, as the audience gets little idea who these characters are before ...

Caliban’s character has featured prominently in arguments that defend or resist against colonialist tyranny. "The Tempest" has also been interpreted as an allegory of liberation. The 20th ...

So wrote critic Hallett Smith of the lead character of “The Tempest,” in the revered 1974 ... surface will later yield up a trapdoor for Caliban (physically imposing student actor Brian ...

“The Tempest” is fascinated ... doesn’t play down the character’s sinister machinations. But he finds a complicated dignity in Caliban’s language, which has moments of surpassing beauty.

Various plots against the main characters fail thanks to the magic of Prospero. The play ends with all the plotters repenting the Tempest is calmed.

In an exhilarating production of “The Tempest” now at Round House Theatre, Caliban is a double-headed ... scenes as the fine acting digs into the characters’ individuality and flaws.

In Writer, Producer, and Director Julie Taymor's version of "The Tempest", the main character is now a woman ... the power struggle and balance between Caliban (Djimon Hounsou) and Prospera ...

“The Tempest” encourages theater artists to go ... two revolutionary subplots (one involving a half-human creature named Caliban), and a love story out of a fairy tale, springs from a medium ...