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...Mayer and his company have taken The Tempest by storm. Designers Eric Martin and William Carter have built a magic island on the Loeb main stage. Paul Levi has filled it with delicate music, which, thanks to a specially installed sound system, is not just a noise off stage, but seems to fill the air. And Mayer, as director, has peopled the enchanted commonwealth with mankind. Plus two. The show should sell out by sundown...
Think of The Tempest not as a statement but as a meditation and you don't ask for a definitive production. There are too many themes woven together in the plot and in the verse for a single rendition of the play to display them all. Some are obscure, at least to an audience not familiar with the traditions of the revenge tragedy and the pastoral romance--both of which The Tempest in some degree comprehends...
...this interpretation too distorts the play. The Tempest is full of commentary on the theme of art vs. nature. Caliban and Miranda are contrasts in the effects of nature on creatures of different nature. Caliban and Antonio are contrasted in their lesser and greater capacity for corruption by civilization--owing to their lesser and greater natural gifts...
...greens, Vitebsk burns, a ship sinks, a ladder is half-posed to remove Christ from the Cross. In his Falling Angel, begun in 1923 and not finished until 1947, the whole world violently disintegrates, with a rabbi fleeing with the Torah and an angel hemorrhaging down through a tempest-torn...
Despite this brave tempest-in-a-tea-pot attitude, Pearson's government has been sorely tried by more or less the same sort of affair throughout its two-year administration. In December 1963 Pearson's Postmaster General resigned amid a parliamentary uproar over the appointment of defeated Liberal candidates as "consultants." The next to go was a Minister Without Portfolio who resigned after two Montreal dailies reported that he took a $10,000 payoff to help some Quebec race-track promoters pick up a franchise. A Quebec royal commission last September accused a Liberal member of the Commons...