Word: tempester
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...Tempest (by William Shakespeare; produced by Cheryl Crawford) was probably Shakespeare's farewell to the theater-a farewell of mingled enchantment and ennui. Done with trying to make sense of life-or even of a play-Shakespeare pitched upon a strange island world almost outside geography. There, while his playwriting became a tangled, stunted vine, his poetry blazed like a burning bush. There Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, tended his daughter Miranda, shipwrecked his enemies by waving his magic wand, ruled over the spirit Ariel, all speed and light, and the monster Caliban, that "freckled whelp hag-born...
This half-gorgeous, half-garrulous fantasy does not take easily to the stage, and is seldom performed. But last week, under the shrewd direction of Margaret Webster, who has pumped new life into Hamlet, Macbeth, many another Shakespeare play, The Tempest, proved surprisingly good theater. Its length cut, its storyline sharpened, its comedy underscored, it held to gether and moved along, became a more mettlesome play than the one Shakespeare wrote...
...Tosspot Tempest. In Manhattan, Katherine O'Connor, denied drink by a saloonkeeper, heaved three barstools into his bar mirror, swept 36 cocktail glasses to the floor, smashed 48 beer glasses, bounced 36 empty bottles off the walls, was finally bounced herself...
Arnold Moss is an impressive Prospero with an incisive voice that gives force and significance to some of Shakespeare's most moving poetry. France Heflin portrays Miranda with an air of innocent wonder that is truly beautiful. Ballet is not out of place in "The Tempest," and Vera Zorina's Ariel has exceptional grace, if not marked dramatic excellence...
...done it again by lifting Prosperous famous "We are such stuff as dreams are made of speech and using it at the final. It may not be true to art, but it is a highly effective outran. Miss Webster has used her pipeline well in "The Tempest...