Will McKay, Chasen Schneider, Levi Morger, Mitchel Kawash & Ariana Karp puzzle through Act IV of The Tempest.
- The Ben Jonson Masque put into the play - difficult to incorporate the Iris/Ceres/Juno part in a way that moves the plot forward
- Iris/Ceres/Juno sequence as a marriage ceremony for Miranda and Ferdinand
- Why is Prospero so upset about remembering Caliban’s treachery?
- Difficulty of the specific stage directions in the act
- What is Prospero’s confrontation with mortality caused by? Caliban’s plot? The appearance of the spirits? His daughter getting married?
- Achieving immortality through words
- Is Prospero concerned with legacy?
- Music as frightening and overwhelming as opposed to soothing and pleasant
- Shakespeare’s use of mixed metaphors “smelt music,” "rainy marching in the painful field" & “I see a voice”
- Is this Shakespeare’s only play that takes place entirely outside?
- Shakespeare and the relationships between punctuation, breathing, rhythm and meaning
Colin Morgan as Ariel in the Globe's 2013 production.