Reposted by Heather Neill
★★ The Tempest, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Magic is minimised in Jamie Lloyd's pared-back #TheTempest, with Sigourney Weaver as an impassive Prospero.
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The Tempest, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane review - Sigourney Weaver's impassive Prospero inhabits an atmospheric, desolate world
Shakespeare must have relished the opportunities brought by the indoor Blackfriars Theatre in 1611: sound magnified in a way impossible outdoors, magical stage effects in the semi-darkness, possibly e...
