Presented in partnership with the Freewill Shakespeare Festival
Peter Greenaway's audacious 1991 film Prospero's Books is the stuff that dreams are made of. John Gielgud said that a film version of The Tempest was his life's ambition. He had approached Alain Resnais, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, and Orson Welles about directing him in it, before Peter Greenaway agreed. The film, loosely based on William Shakespeare's mystery play, does not present the work using conventional staging but suggests it through dreamlike ballet sequences with writhing nude dancers, computer animation, lush photography, surreal imagery and the evocative music of Michael Nyman. Gielgud, still magnificent in his eighties, is Prospero, the philosopher-king. He is the voice of all the other characters as well as Prospero including the witches' son, Caliban (dancer Michael Clark), the King's son Ferdinand (Mark Rylance), and Prospero's fifteen-year old daughter Miranda (Isabelle Pasco) and, in his clearly articulated poetic voice, Gielgud allows Shakespeare's language to soar.
- Thursday February 26 at 7:00PM
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