The Tempest
- Synopsis
- A video recording of The Tempest, staged as part of The Bridge Project, directed by Sam Mendes. Stephen Dillane is Prospero.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 12 Mar 2010
- Duration
- 140 mins
Credits
- Director
- Sam Mendes
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Mark Bennett
- Production Design
- Tom Piper
- Costume
- Catherine Zuber
- Cast
Additional Details
- Theatre
- Harvey Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Plays
- Tempest, The
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- General
- A production within The Bridge Project, a three-year transatlantic partnership between the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Old Vic and Neal Street Productions.
- History
- Staged at BAM’s Harvey Theater, Brooklyn, NY, 24 February-13 March 2010; and at the Old Vic, London, 12 June-21 August 2010.
- Stills
- "The best thing about The Tempest is its visual coherence. Eschewing the fashionable colonial reading, Mendes presents the play as a piece of meta-theatre with Prospero an all-controlling director-playwright. This yields one beautiful image in which the masque becomes a recreation of Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, with a sun-hatted Prospero presiding over a pastoral idyll" [Michael Billington, The Guardian, 24 June, 2010).
Production Company
Archive
- Name
Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT)
- toft@nypl.org
- Web
- http://www.nypl.org/locations/lpa/theatre-film-and-tape-archive External site opens in new window
- Phone
- + 1 (212) 870-1642
- Fax
- (212) 8701868
- Address
- Billy Rose Theatre Collection
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York,New York
10023-7498
USA
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "The Tempest". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av73278 (Accessed 11 Dec 2024)