Caliban's

One of the most memorable moments in "Ages of Man" comes when Gielgud speaks Caliban's lines from "The Tempest" about how the enchanted island on which he is trapped is "full of noises, / Sounds and sweet airs, that give light and hurt not."

Turn On, Tune In, Get Serious Terry Teachout 2011

I was with him on Caliban's Island, when he roused Les Lézards from their deep slumber in the deep metal chambers inside the great crater at the heart of that terrible island.

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Around this more than sufficiently intriguing situation, Mr. Bennett has wrapped a backstage comedy about the process of rehearsing "Caliban's Day" for production at London's National Theatre.

Play Date With Auden and Britten Terry Teachout 2011

Instead it's a humane, intelligent retelling of the original story in which much of the focus is on the plight of the obsessive scientist's sad creation, who becomes his alter ego and his nemesis: it's rather like seeing The Tempest rewritten from Caliban's point of view.

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In addition to the cast of "Caliban's Day," we meet the vain, neurotic playwright (Wynn Harmon), the long-suffering stage manager (Margaret Daly) and various other familiar but knowingly drawn theatrical types.

Play Date With Auden and Britten Terry Teachout 2011

Alas, Caliban's lust for Prospero's underaged daughter, Miranda Sarah Gold, caused a permanent rift between the two men and Caliban is now in chains.

George Heymont: Of Tempests and Teapots George Heymont 2011

Alas, Caliban's lust for Prospero's underaged daughter, Miranda Sarah Gold, caused a permanent rift between the two men and Caliban is now in chains.

George Heymont: Of Tempests and Teapots George Heymont 2011

Alas, Caliban's lust for Prospero's underaged daughter, Miranda Sarah Gold, caused a permanent rift between the two men and Caliban is now in chains.

George Heymont: Of Tempests and Teapots George Heymont 2011

Alas, Caliban's lust for Prospero's underaged daughter, Miranda Sarah Gold, caused a permanent rift between the two men and Caliban is now in chains.

George Heymont: Of Tempests and Teapots George Heymont 2011

"The Habit of Art" is set at a rehearsal of "Caliban's Day," an imaginary docudrama about Auden, Britten and Humphrey Carpenter, who wrote biographies of both men.

Play Date With Auden and Britten Terry Teachout 2011