Mitchel Kawash, Will McKay, Zoë Goslin and Ariana Karp discuss Act II of The Tempest.

Staging must be very, very precise in both of the scenes in this Act
The scenes make more sense in the context of staging, meaning derived from the movement
Antonio and Sebastian as one focal point and Alonso & Gonzalo as the other focal point
Gonzalo’s Utopia speech lifted from Montaigne’s essays
“Noble Savage” idea and its undercutting within the act
Bringing back the ‘native’ creature from the isle for profit is an idea which occurs to four characters in the play
Shakespeare’s prophetic vision of colonizer and colonized
The temptation of Sebastian to ambition and power by the political mastermind that is Antonio
Antonio is a “modern” political creation
Elasticity of interpreting The Tempest
Why does Prospero put all the courtiers asleep and leave Sebastian and Antonio awake? Is it a test of their characters to see if they have changed?
Parallels of Prospero and Sycorax