Show Details
Director Martin Danziger
Assistant Directors Jo Freer and Heather Speight
Designers Sarah Helyar and Mark Carr
Music Mairi McGregor and Mark Carr
Author Martin Danziger
Company Northlands Festival
The Old Bus Depot, Northlands Festival 2000, Highlands
A specially commissioned adaptation of The Tempest for core cast and large community input. The show combined new text with elements of Shakespeare adn incorporated theatre, circus and live music.
Prospero's rough magic is a powerful and resonant image of the excitement and power of community theatre. There is the power of illusion with all the danger and roughness and thrill of something happening in front of you. A shared mystery that brings people together and gives them a shared memory and a buzz and when the rough magic is being performed in some place as rough as the bus depot, It is hard to imagine magic shining brighter.
Scotland on SundayThis Northlands production has done it again - another triumph... the audience loved it, the youngsters obviously enjoyed it and the professionals must be proud of their own, and the young participants achievements.
The HeraldFlying Ariels, and monstrous Calibans, a gothic Prospero and a dark suited sartorial royalty... Written by director Martin Danziger, the Revels End combined theatre and circus to produce a spectacular event guaranteed to delight the audience...If it was a triumph as a performance it was equally so as a community event.
Caithness Courier