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When an experienced director of Shakespeare like Ron Daniels collaborates with the man who played Ivan Ooze in the movie version of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," something special is in the air. Daniels's innovative decisions and Paul Freeman's excellent, traditional performance as Prospero add up to a production of "The Tempest" that is unique and elegant...
...OPENING SCENE OF SHAKEspeare's The Tempest, as a ship careens in a gale, a sailor cries, "What care these roarers for the name of king?" In fact the storm does care. The waves are agents of Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, who is about to launch us into a sort of King Lear's Revenge. Once again we meet a deposed, aging monarch and howling winds. But if the storm on the heath undid Lear, the raging of the elements provides Prospero's salvation...
...impressive new Prospero has arrived on Broadway: the Royal Shakespeare Company's Patrick Stewart, well known to TV audiences as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation. In a performance he first offered to much acclaim last summer in Central Park, Stewart gives us a down-at-heels (barefoot, actually) aristocrat of lithe movements and piercing, narrow-eyed glances. Doubt and failure gnaw at him; he's a tatterdemalion schemer who knows, however potent his magic, that he's trafficking in forces that dwarf...
...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...
DIED. SIR MICHAEL HORDERN, 83, British actor whose portrayals of tragic heroes on stage (Prospero in The Tempest) were counterpointed by comic supporting roles in movies (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum); in Oxford, England...