Word: calibans
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Robert Shaw gives us Caliban, "gaping with gross howls," Maeve Kinkead '68 sees "an ocean gone alizarin," and in Gavin Borden's poem, "An impartial breeze will window/cherished ashes from green, blown leaves." They manage to sound like poets, but the sound effects and tricky adjectives are stuck in for their own sakes, and not for the poem...
...soaring office buildings and fetid subway tunnels, beleaguered commuter trains and jampacked terminals, they joked and chattered, waiting from minute to minute for the reviving whine of dynamos, the first stutter of returning light. And, incredulously, they began to realize at last that they had been transported to Caliban's world, a vast, trackless cave without warmth or wheels, without hot food or the lights of home...
...this interpretation too distorts the play. The Tempest is full of commentary on the theme of art vs. nature. Caliban and Miranda are contrasts in the effects of nature on creatures of different nature. Caliban and Antonio are contrasted in their lesser and greater capacity for corruption by civilization--owing to their lesser and greater natural gifts...
Peter Weil's Caliban was less lusty than I'd have made him, but that's Mayer's doing. Weil makes an intriguing connection between this and spiritual impotence. Particularly in his "'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-caliban" song when Caliban stretches his lungs and brain to their breaking point and makes nothing but noise, he expresses the limits of his subhuman character...
Thomas Babe and Dean Stolber, as Trinculo and Stephano, created their own little boozy world in their scenes with Caliban. In a lesser production they'd be the reason for buying tickets...