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...fair, director Patrick Bradford's Tempest is worth seeing for its first-rate performances. Eric Oleson is superb as the aging Gonzalo, shuffling and pontificating with perfect ease. Nick Lawrence pulls off a highly credible Prospero; Naama Potok and Andrew Sullivan are convincing as the youthful lovers Miranda and Ferdinand...
What makes the play memorable, though, is the virtuoso acting of Ben Evett as Ariel and Kerrick Johnson as Caliban, the sorceror Prospero's two slaves. Ariel and Caliban are pivotal figures, representing the opposing realms of Air and Earth that lie at the heart of Shakespeare's thematic dilemma. And in this production, Evett and Johnson can hardly do wrong, expertly treading the line between man and spirit that make these two of Shakespeare's more difficult roles...
...while away our time with a game of twenty questions, the knot between good acting and good lighting is tightening onstage. Nick Lawrence, Andrew Sullivan, and Naama Potok--as Prospero, Ferdinand, and Miranda, respectively--are already confident in their roles, consistently delivering fine performances. All that remains is to ensure that they don't have to speak their lines in darkness...
...been appointed by the government to investigate the deaths of Aquino and Galman. Four of the five members of the commission--all except Chairwoman Corazon Agrava--had implicated the same 26 men who were indicted last week. Ver and the officer he assigned to investigate the killing, Major General Prospero Olivas, were among eight men named by the Tanodbayan as accessories for their part in concealing evidence of the crime...
...King Stag has a meaning too. It ends when the magician Duandarte, like Shakespeare's Prospero before him, lays down his magic wand and returns to life among men and natural phenomena--but not before saying that, finally, the best fantasies do not escape reality but return to it refreshed with the hope that the ordinary can be wonderful. And he is right. When you leave the Loeb, the streetlights--well, at least the stars--will seem to wink...