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...rose where the demonic or angelic world view of the Middle Ages shifted into the classifying rationalism of the Enlightenment. "Those are pearls that were his eyes/ Nothing of him that doth fade/ But doth suffer a sea-change/ Into something rich and strange." Ariel's song in The Tempest imagines the sea itself as the Wunderkammer of the drowned King of Naples...
...ready for destiny's casting call. Writer-Director Paul Mazursky auditioned Molly for a crucial role in his film Tempest. "I came in, and Paul told me he was going to throw a penny at me for every dumb thing I said. Whatever I said, plink, he just kept tossing them. Pretty soon he was throwing nickels and quarters and dollars, and I just kept talking. When the interview was over, I reached down and gathered up all the money and put it in my pocket. He asked if he could have his money back, and I said...
...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...
Fidelity to the text is indeed the trademark of this Tempest, but it makes the play too slow and too long. Shakespeare's shortest play should be enchanting, like one of Prospero's spells; as it is, Bradford's production seems longer than its lengthy three hour running time. The problem is compounded by the fact that the actors speak their lines very slowly, as if too reverent of Shakespeare's poetry...
...This Tempest clearly deserves attention. Anchored by some of the best acting to walk across the planks of the mainstage this year, it is an able effort at a formidable play...