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 ...

So how does the director tackle Shakespeare's great work, The Tempest? Lloyd is certainly ... some strange choices when it came to the character of Caliban – from feet kissing to regular ...

LONDON — Oscar-nominated Hollywood star Sigourney Weaver has made her West End debut as the magician Prospero in William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and said she was glad she had taken on ...

Jamie Lloyd’s production of The Tempest – such stuff as dreams are ... inhabited by the ethereal Ariel and the rebellious ...

She sits alone at the front of the stage gazing out into the vast auditorium as the tempest she has conjured ... uninhabited apart from the monstrous Caliban (Forbes Mssson) and the airy spirit ...

LONDON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Oscar-nominated Hollywood star Sigourney Weaver has made her West End debut as the magician Prospero in William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and said she was glad she had ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We first see Sigourney Weaver’s Prospero sitting, meditatively, in a shaft of white light while behind ...

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 ...

In that version, one of the play’s clownish characters was a drunk and bumbling FEMA agent. The company is revisiting the work, presenting “Shakespeare’s Tempest, Reimagined,” again with ...

Peter Brook’s swansong, the “Tempest Project ... is reduced to six (portraying seven characters: the protean French actor Sylvain Levitte plays both Caliban and Ferdinand in Théâtre ...