Evening Standard - London, November 2nd, 2000
THE TEMPEST * The Pit, Barbican
JAMES Macdonald's elegantly arty RSC production of Shakespeare's late play may not be to all tastes, but it does skilfully anatomise the drama's artistic, spiritual and political allegories.
Artistically, like the hero Prospero, Macdonald deploys state-of- the-art showmanship to command the imagination of his captive audience. Video footage of the sea, the sky and green cornfields, projected onto Jeremy Herbert's undulating white set, create delicately mesmerising effects to enchant the senses. Prospero's intention is to hypnotise and recondition the usurpers ...
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