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A tepid Tempest

Bard on the Beach production lacks focus

The Tempest by William
Shakespeare, Directed by Scott
Swan, Vanier Park to Sep. 5 in Va. .
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: Martin Millerchip
THEATRE REVIEW

HE TEMPEST is not an
easy play to stage.

Its magic has tittle to do
with the comedic trickery of A
Midsummer Night’s Dream but
pervades and surrounds the action
as completely as the sea encircles
the isle that has been home to
Prospero and his daughter,
Miranda, for 12 years.

There is a feeling of compres-
sion, of fractured time that is dif-
ficult to achieve. Characters
dream, sleep and trance until the
“abysm of ume” ensnares not
only the players but also the au-
dience.

At least it should.

The fact that it does not cannot
be blamed on the distractions of
adjacent pop bands, fireworks or
Rob Ruttan who, as Alonso, took
the actors’ old adage of ‘’break a
leg’’ to literal extremes on preview
and now performs precariously
perched on a crutch.

Things start well.

The opening shipwreck scene,
upon which many previous pro-
ductions have foundered, is
brilliantly conceived and ex-
ecuted.

Too often this scene is an
overlong storm in a teacup, but

photo Navid Coaper

CALIBAN KICKS up his heels for his new master, Stephanc.
Drink, of course, is not a factor. Scott Bellis (inverted) and
Christopher Gaze er2 featured in Bard on the Beach’s production

of The Tempest.

here, with no lighting to help, de-
signer Ron Fedoruk and
choreographer David MacMurray
Smith together with director Scott
Swan achieve a powerful evoca-

tion of the sea’s (and Prospero’s)
fury.
Laurier Dubeau’s Ariel, Pro-
spero’s airy spirit, is cleverly

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