The Tempest
This 1959 production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest adapted by Dryden and D’Avenant with a musical score by Henry Purcell, was staged to celebrate the Purcell Tercentenary.
The adaptation, a comedy, was first performed in London in the 1660s.
Cast & Crew
Cast
Alonzo | Oliver Neville |
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Antonio | Jeremy Kemp |
Ariel | Jeanette Sterke |
Caliban | Joss Ackland |
Dancer: a Devil | Anna Paskevska |
Dancer: a Spirit | Gayrie MacSween |
Dancer: a Spirit | Maureen Moore |
Dancer: one of Four Winds | Yemaiel Oved |
Dancer: one of Four Winds | Ronald Reay |
Dancer: one of Four Winds | David Scott |
Dancer: one of Four Winds | Jenny Trevelyan |
Dancer: Triton, Nereid, Devil | Tony Bennett |
Dancer: Triton, Nereid, Devil | Geoffrey Corser |
Dancer: Triton, Nereid, Devil | Robert Fisher |
Dancer: Triton, Nereid, Devil | Alex Gohar |
Dancer: Triton, Nereid, Devil | Gayrie MacSween |
Dancer: Triton, Nereid, Devil | Maureen Moore |
Dancer: Triton, Nereid, Devil | Anna Paskevska |
Dancer: Triton, Nereid, Devil | Susan Salomon |
Dorindo | Juliet Cooke |
Ferdinand | Gordon Gardner |
Gonzalo | Gerald James |
Hippolito | Christine Finn |
Miranda | Natasha Parry |
Mustacho | Dennis Chinnery |
Prospero | John Phillips |
Singer: Aeolus | Edgar Fleet |
Singer: Amphitrite | Mary Thomas |
Singer: Ariel | Mary Thomas |
Singer: First Devil | Charles West |
Singer: Neptune | Charles West |
Singer: Second Devil | James Atkins |
Stephano | Norman Scace |
Sycorax | Rosalind Atkinson |
Trincalo | Miles Malleson |
Ventosa | John Barcroft |
Crew | |
Adapter of Shakespeare’s Tempest | William D’Avenant |
Adapter of Shakespeare’s Tempest | John Dryden |
Choreographer | Peter Wright |
Composer | Henry Purcell |
Designer | Finlay James |
Director | Douglas Seale |
- Source: University of Bristol Theatre Collection
- Last modified by JMA Price.
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