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presents Ira Burton • John Glover • Nicholas Kepros • Sonja Lanzener • Barry Morse • Susan Osborn Mott • Brian Murray • Paul Sparer • Pat Terry in
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The Tempest is the fourth, final, and the finest of Shakespeare's great and/or late romances. It belongs to the genre of Elizabethan romance plays. It combines elements of tragedy (Prospero's revenge) with those of romantic comedy (the young lovers Miranda and Ferdinand), and it poses deeper questions that are not completely resolved at the end. Shakespeare's tale of Prospero's Island is inherently theatrical, unfolding in a series of spectacles that involve exotic, supra-human,and sometimes invisible characters that the audience can see but other characters cannot. The play was composed by Shakespeare as a multi-sensory theater experience, with sound, and especially music, used to complement the sights of the play, and all of it interwoven by the author with lyrical textual passages that over-flow with exotic images, trifling sounds, and a palpable lushness. |
Barry Morse
Born in London's East End, Barry's career began when he won a full scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the age of 15. Upon graduation he followed with successful stage runs in London's West End and in theatrical productions throughout the United Kingdom, and appeared on the BBC's earliest live television broadcasts in the late 1930s. Barry relocated to Canada in the early 1950s, working in live theatre, on CBC Radio, and in the premiere CBC TV broadcasts. While a staple many of the anthology and dramatic series of the 1950s and 1960s, he is probably best known in North America for his TV roles as Lt. Gerard in "The Fugitive" and in "Space: 1999" as Prof. Bergman. A journalist recently determined that he has played more than 3,000+ roles on the stage, screen, and radio in a career that has spanned over six decades.
Conductor/arranger Mary Springfels has been Musician-in-Residence at the Newberry Library since 1982 and is the founder and director of the Newberry Consort. A veteran of the early music movement in America, she has performed and recorded extensively with such ensembles as the NY Pro Musica, The Waverly Consort, Concert Royal, Sequentia, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Music of the Baroque, Musica Sacra, the Marlborough Festival, the New York City Opera, and Chicago Opera Theater, where she also serves as an artistic advisor. Ms Springfels is on the faculty at Northwestern University.
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