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 ...

Ivett Berenyi reviews the Magdalen Players' production of The Tempest, staged in the Magdalen auditorium due to bad weather.

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 ...

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 ...

Early in Shakespeare's The Tempest, there's a longish scene ... it's clear that he's in love with her. Caliban was always a complex character — Shakespeare gave him some of the loveliest speeche ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

“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 ...

The ensemble of The Tempest at Idle Muse ... as scenes featuring minor characters drag down the pace. Gender-swapped casting and an unusual take on Caliban draw out themes of parenthood ...