The three give chase, with others following. Just as they’re about to eat, Ariel enters and accuses Sebastian, Antonio, and Alonso of their misdeeds. King and court are exhausted from searching the island for Ferdinand, at which point spirits appear and conjure a feast. They are soon distracted by music, and wander off following it. Caliban advances his plot against Prospero.
The drunken servants introduce Caliban to alcohol.įerdinand dutifully loads firewood for Prospero as he and Miranda get to know each other.Īriel creates confusion and dismay between Stephano and Trinculo. The three hatch a plot to murder Prospero and take command of the island. Just as they’re about to strike, everyone wakes up.Ĭaliban meets Stephano and Trinculo, servants of the king. As the rest of the court falls asleep around them, Sebastian and Antonio plot to murder the king. Gonzalo preaches optimism while Sebastian and Antonio mock him. Their clothes, however, are mysteriously dry. Ferdinand, the king’s son, has been shipwrecked on the island and is lured by Ariel to meet Prospero and Miranda. We are also introduced to Caliban, a mutinous slave and native of the island, and Ariel, a spirit who we learn created the tempest at Prospero’s command. On an island, Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, explains to his daughter Miranda how they came to live there. As the sailors onboard attempt to right the ship, the king and lords bemoan their fate, and get in the sailors’ way. For a summary of the story, read on!Īlonso, King of Naples, and his court are on a ship at sea, returning from his daughter’s wedding in Tunis. Look here for more details on auditions and our production. (Our past Shakespeare productions have been a twentieth century Romeo and Juliet, an eighteenth century Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a post-apocalyptic Macbeth. We also thought it was a great choice to set in the nineteenth century. So why are we producing The Tempest? Well, we were due for a comedy, and this tale of shipwrecks, sorcery, and spirits is a heck of a lot of fun. (Schools like to work those tragedies, don’t they?) It certainly isn’t one that most of us read in high school. The Tempest isn’t one of Shakespeare’s best known or most performed plays.
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Inevitably, however, she must decide whether to punish or forgive her enemies, and whether or not to return to her dukedom, set Ariel and Caliban free and bid farewell to her magic arts.Let’s face it. Driven to madness and despair, they wander the island, while Prospero entertains Ferdinand and Miranda with a magical pageant and deals with the drunkards’ plot. Prospero’s magical illusions, carried out by Ariel, terrify the Queen and her followers by reminding them of their treachery against Prospero. A couple of tipplers from the ship, the butler Stephano and Trinculo the jester, meet Caliban, introduce him to liquor and inspire him to renounce Prospero and follow them – even to plot killing Prospero so that they can rule the island. To test them, Prospero sets Ferdinand to hard labor and warns them that they must remain chaste until marriage. Ferdinand, led by Ariel, sees Miranda and immediately falls in love, as she does with him. Antonio urges Sebastian to murder Alonso and become king, but they are thwarted by Ariel. Safe on the island, Alonso mourns Ferdinand, whom she believes drowned. Through her magic, she has shipwrecked them all on her island, although no harm has really been done to them or their ship. Now Prospero has the opportunity to revenge her wrongs on her enemies and to marry Miranda to young Ferdinand. There, Prospero has continued to study magic, aided by the spirit Ariel, whom she keeps in bondage, and resentfully served by Caliban, a witch’s monstrous son and the only native of the island. Prospero and her little daughter Miranda were cast away at sea, and eventually their leaky boat washed up on a desert island.
Unknown to them, the storm has been magically raised by Prospero, a powerful magician and former Duchess of Milan. Twelve years before, Antonio, Prospero’s brother, treacherously seized the dukedom with the help of Alonso’s army. A ferocious storm at sea engulfs the ship carrying Antonio, present Duke of Milan Alonso, Queen of Naples, and Sebastian, her brother Ferdinand, Alonso’s son and a crew of servants and sailors.
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