Mendes’ Tempest, premiering in New York, is the latest instalment from the Bridge Project, a collaboration between Mendes, Kevin Spacey at London’s Old Vic and Joseph V Melillo of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which brings together transatlantic casts to perform classic plays. It arrives in London in June, along with As You Like It.
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Tom Piper’s sparse set is complemented by Paul Pyant’s lighting, which uses a vibrant colour palette to evoke sunrise, sunset and nightfall. There is much to admire in this production but not all of Mendes’ innovations work. A back-projected home video, supposedly of Miranda as a little girl, which appears during the wedding scene, feels jarringly out of place. The action is muddled at times and the occasional line is forgotten or swallowed up in translation, hopefully faults that will be mended before the play transfers to London in June.
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To 13 Mar (Bam.org); ‘The Tempest’ and ‘As You Like It’ come to the Old Vic, London, from 12 Jun to 21 Aug (Oldvictheatre.com)
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