In 2006 - 2007, the Royal Shakespeare Company will present The Complete Works, including plays Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest
starring Patrick Stewart. Priority booking dates: Full Members’
priority booking now open. Associate Members’ telephone and online
priority booking opens August 22, 2005. Public booking opens September 5, 2005.
Patrick Stewart in THE TEMPEST
von William Shakespeare
The Tempest (2006)
The Swan Theatre / Stratford-Upon-Avon
Producer: Royal Shakespeare Company
Playwright: William Shakespeare
Cast: Patrick Stewart
Character: Prospero
Close to a Mediterranean island a
storm overcomes a ship that carries King Alonso of Naples, his son
Ferdinand and brother Sebastian, home from Tunis to Italy. Shipwrecked
with them are the courtier, Gonzalo, and Antonio, the Duke of Milan.
The storm is watched from the shore by Prospero, the former Duke of
Milan and his fifteen year-old daughter, Miranda. Prospero tells her
the story that twelve years before he had been deposed in a coup by his
brother, Antonio, but with the aid of Gonzalo he had escaped in a boat
with the infant Miranda and his books of magic. They came to the island
and made it their home while the only native islander, Caliban, son of
the witch Sycorax, was made their slave. Their only other companions
are the spirits led by Ariel, whom Prospero had rescued by his magic,
from imprisonment in a tree.