Learning on ScreenTempest, The
- Synopsis
- Televised adaptation of the play directed by Basil Coleman with Michael Redgrave as Prospero, Keith Michell as Caliban and Ronald Pickup as Ariel. Dancing support by ‘The Ballet Rambert’.
- Series
- Play of the Month
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Television
- Availability
- No archive copy traced
- Notes
- The BBC Audience Research Viewing Panel report noted some viewers found the plot ‘abtruse and fanciful’ and there was widespread criticism of the storm effects at the beginning which drowned out the dialogue. The bleak and stark sets evoked in one viewer ‘a sun-bleached, salty emptiness’.
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Credits
- Director
- Basil Coleman
- Producer
- Cedric Messina
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Raymond Leppard
- Art Direction
- Tony Abbott
- Cast
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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