Prospero

Christa, who lives in Dunedin, plays the role of Prospera, the lead character. In original version of the play, the character is named Prospero and is a man, but Durst changed the role to capture the strengths of the mother-daughter...

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...Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Tempest in a hostile icy wasteland. He cast Patrick Stewart, whom he'd previously directed as Prospero, as a Stalinist Macbeth in an award-winning revival that moved from Chichester to the West End...

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...flow. He already has a performance in the can as Ariel, in Julie Taymor's screen version of Shakespeare's The Tempest (Helen Mirren plays Prospero, now Prospera), and will soon take to the stage in Cock, at London's Royal Court Theatre,...

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...not an imbecile or a psychopath is going to have to identify with them enough to lead them out of the fever swamps. Someone has to play Prospero here and say: "This thing of darkness, I acknowledge mine. " The temptation for someone who wants...

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...dressed in tights made of bright-blue scales." Perhaps you have to be an aristocrat born on Shakespeare's birthday to play Prospero. Nabokov came from a family of almost impossible grandeur, Russian liberals who fled the Crimea...

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...downsizing. </p><p>•“The Tempest” (2010): In director Julie Taymor&rsquo;s version, Shakespeare’s sorcerer Prospero becomes Prospera (Helen Mirren). Cooper plays her scheming brother. </p><p><strong><span...

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His touring-show "imaginarium" - disappear through the faux mirror at the back of the stage and you are in far-flung fantasylands - is both his Prospero magic-world and his Learish tragic kingdom, while his daughter (Lily Cole doing...

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...for "The Larry Sanders Show" in '96). He starred on CBS' crime drama "Criminal Minds" for its first two seasons and has recently played Prospero in a New York production of "The Tempest" and has done a series of concerts with his "Evita"...

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...- although the basic outlines are familiar, Ades and librettist Meredith Oakes have taken the opportunity to focus more closely on Prospero's psychology, turning him into a flawed potentate reminiscent of Wagner's Wotan. Most striking, though,...

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...actor Christopher Plummer is returning to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival next year in one of the bard's most iconic roles: as Prospero in The Tempest. Plummer, 79, last appeared at the festival during its 2008 season, when he...

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