“Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises...” —Act 3, Scene 2
The farewell masterpiece by William Shakespeare. In this great drama of loss and reconciliation, a long-deposed ruler uses magical arts to bring within her power the enemies who robbed her of her throne and marooned her on a remote island. But what revenge does she mean to take?
Prospero (Stratford veteran Martha Henry) who has deliberately conjured up the storm lives on the island with her daughter Miranda, the sprite Ariel, and the ugly, half human Caliban.
The storm that rages within Shakespeare’s alter-ego Prospero is as tempestuous as that which she conjures to wrack her enemies. Lessons of forgiveness are learned, and lives are changed forever.
{Henry}... "gives a performance full of passion and power” - The Globe and Mail, Toronto
