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...Prospero is a magician exiled from his dukedom who seeks revenge. When the men who betrayed him are near the shore of his island, he sends a storm to wreck their ship and bring them all onto the shore. As he plans revenge, oversees the engagement of his daughter Miranda (Jessalyn Gilsig) to Prince Ferdinand of Naples (Scott Ripley) and foils Caliban's plot against his life, Freeman evokes every doubt, conviction and emotion Prospero experiences. He is temperamental and harsh with his spirit-servant Ariel, kind but strict toward Caliban and a little amazed by his own decision...
...much to admire in director George C. Wolfe's eclectic production, which draws on Kabuki, Balinese puppet theater, rap, jazzy percussion. This is a big, bold, colorful spectacle--a boiling sea of sights and sounds. But something is radically--fatally--wrong with any production in which lines like Miranda's "Oh brave new world/ That has such people in't!" or Antonio's "Say this were death that now hath seized them" are laugh getters...
...innocence of Miranda (Carrie Preston) should warm the spirit; the treachery of Antonio (Nestor Serrano) should chill the veins. Yet emotional extremes--hot and cold--are missing here. Wolfe allows Preston to play Miranda as a panting, boy-mad, '90s adolescent. Reared on an island inhabited only by her father and a pair of spirits, where has she acquired her repertoire of salacious smirks, hotfooted flouncings, pouting moues...
...Tempest is about emancipation: Prospero escapes his exile, Ariel emerges from servitude, Miranda enters the realm of adult passion. Yet this production fails to free its audience. When the storm clears, our feelings--like many a storm-tossed thing--are hopelessly knotted...
Milwaukee (Miranda 1-1) at Cleveland (Clark...