The Jamie Lloyd Company presents a joyous and captivating season of Shakespeare in London’s iconic Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”
The legendary Sigourney Weaver makes her West End debut as Prospero in this enchanting story of revenge and forgiveness
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Captioned: Saturday 25th January 14:30
Audio Described: Saturday 18th January 14:30
BSL: Saturday 11th January 14:30
Lloyd’s chuck-it-at-the-wall-and-see-what-works vision doesn’t help. The auteur’s trademark visual austerity strips the island of specifics, with piles of black ash flecked by glaring crepuscular light forming a planetary hellscape. If you squint, it could almost be a stage version of Dune with its slightly campy sci-fi costumes but especially when a pale-faced Caliban pops his bald head up from the gravel like a sandworm.
No-one, apart from Selina Cadell who makes an honourable character of Gonzalo, one of the nobles of Milan that Prospero causes to be shipwrecked on the island, seems to have much idea about what they are saying. Weaver absolutely looks the part, commanding the stage with her charisma, brooding watchfully over the action, but she speaks in an unrelenting and perversely unrhythmic monotone.
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