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Everybody knows the story of The Tempest: the magician Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, have lived on a desert island ever since Prospero's brother, Antonio, usurped the Dukedom of Milan and banished them. But now Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck Antonio's passing ship. Antonio and his fellow conspirators fall into Prospero's hands. With the help of the sprites that he controls, Prospero dictates the subsequent events on the island, cunningly arranging a reconciliation and improving his political standing. The play toys with our notions of reality and illusion, and presents an engaging debate about power...
EMMA THOMPSON HAS THE OSCAR and Miranda Richardson had a nomination, but as Tinseltown audiences are discovering, the most interesting British stage actress of the under-40 generation has long been a waif-eyed, bassoon-voiced, ironhearted daredevil named Juliet Stevenson. U.S. audiences are apt to know her only from the cult film Truly, Madly, Deeply. But on the boards in London, her range is astonishing, from the hoydenish Rosalind in As You Like It to the nihilistic Hedda Gabler, from the sexually awakening adolescent of Troilus and Cressida to the avenging victim of Death and the Maiden. She approximates...
Mark Fish does a fine job as Miranda Warning, a spike-elbowed dominatrix who protects the king from (most) of Prettiface's assassins...
Death is in the air from the first moments of Damage. A middle-age Member of Parliament (Jeremy Irons), comfortable in marriage to a rich, charming woman (Miranda Richardson) meets the enigmatic girlfriend (Juliette Binoche) of his son (Rupert Graves) and falls in love -- really falls, headfirst, from the precipice of his propriety. People don't survive this impact. They either die or are scarred forever by guilt and loss...
THEY ARE A STRANGE QUARTET: THE sensitive IRA gunman (Stephen Rea) and his brutal blond colleague (Miranda Richardson); the gentle English soldier they take hostage (Forest Whitaker) and the love he left behind (comely newcomer Jaye Davidson). In THE CRYING GAME, Irish writer-director Neil Jordan spins his had-I-but-known plot twists from Belfast to London. By the end of this devious thriller, just about everyone has had to point a loaded gun at just about anyone else he or she might have cared for. In a style of agitated naturalism, Jordan (Mona Lisa) examines poignant matters...