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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 ActThe scenes make more sense in the context of staging, meaning derived from the movementAntonio and Sebastian as one focal point and Alonso & Gonzalo as the other focal pointGonzalo’s Utopia speech lifted from Montaigne’s essays“Noble Savage” idea and its undercutting within the actBringing back the ‘native’ creature from the isle for profit is an idea which occurs to four characters in the playShakespeare’s prophetic vision of colonizer and colonized The temptation of Sebastian to ambition and power by the political mastermind that is AntonioAntonio is a “modern” political creationElasticity of interpreting The TempestWhy 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 Simon Russell Beale as Ariel and Alec McCowen as Prospero in the RSC's 1993 production.

PlayShakespeare.com Editor in Chief Chris Adams talks to the cast of a new kind of Hamlet at the Factory Theatre in London.

PlayShakespeare.com Editor in Chief Chris Adams talks to the group behind the newly formed Swivel Theatre in London.Their inaugurual production of Othello won rave reviews.

Lesley Currier discusses her past twenty years as Managing Director at the Marin Shakespeare Company and their current 2009 season. Interviewed by Denise Battista, Editor-in-Chief of PlayShakespeare.com.