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

Director

Sam Mendes

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Mark Bennett

Production Design

Tom Piper

Costume

Catherine Zuber

Cast

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).

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