But I didn’t feel the whole thing gelled very well - if I hadn’t read it first I wouldn’t have worked out what was going on. I’d like to see a more conventional production.

Production emphasised Prospero’s tyranny over Arial and Caliban, and Caliban came across a bit too sympathetically I thought - the fact that he’d tried to rape Miranda was easy to miss.

“I am a fool to weep at what I am glad of” - what a line! but she didn’t do it right.

vocab: “bootless” == useless, fruitless

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