Tempest, The

Synopsis: Video recording of the American Conservatory Theatre’s 1996 production of The Tempest directed by Carey Perloff with David Strathairn as Prospero.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 15 Feb 1996
Duration: 144 mins

History: The production ran 18 January to 18 February 1996.
Reviews: Berens, Bradley S. Shakespeare Bulletin 14, no. 2 (1996). Berens writes `... But the power of Kelley’s Ariel was seriously undercut by the four-foot long feather he wore, attached to a beanie and wavering precariously throughout the night...' and `...
Perhaps most confusedly characteristic of the production, the "some thousands of these logs" (3.1.10) that Ferdinand has to move in order to prove to Prospero that his love for Miranda is genuine were not pieces of wood but bright yellow nautical logbooks. This staged pun had no appreciable point: Ferdinand merely looked like he had to move all of a forty-year subscription to National Geographic from one part of a dentist’s waiting room to another...'