"Jonathan Miller at the Mermaid has got it into his head that Shakespeare's dramatic last word has some relevance to the psychology of colonisation - whatever that means - which has enabled him to site the action in some sort of Caribbean island where the natives are black and the imperialists represented by white Italians who have stumbled ...

Aug 29, 1970 · Mr. Miller first accepts “The Tempest” on Shake speare's own terms, with all its calm resignation and au tumnal farewells, and then adds a purely contemporary interpretation by...

In 1970, at the Mermaid Theatre, Jonathan Miller's production interpreted the play from the perspective of colonialism. Two West Indian actors, Norman Beaton and Rudolph Walker, were cast as Ariel and Caliban.

Nov 28, 2019 · Sir Jonathan Miller, who has died aged 85, was the polymath theatre and opera director, television presenter, writer and artist who rose to fame in the 1960s as part of the stage revue...

June 1970 until August 1970. This production of The Tempest Ran From 15/06/1970 to 29/08/1970 and is a Residency at The Mermaid Theatre featuring Angela Pleasence, Rudolph Walker, Bruce Purchase, Norman Beaton, and Antony Brown [Generated By Dress Circle] Recommended Age: 7+.

Sep 16, 2024 · It was not until the 1970s that a colonial reading of the play emerged, with Jonathan Miller’s production described as ‘the tragic and inevitable disintegration of a more primitive culture as the result of European invasion and colonisation’.

Video recording of Jonathan Miller’s 1988 production of The Tempest for the Old Vic with Max von Sydow as Prospero. ‘Miller ... used a mixed cast made up of white actors as the humans and black actors playing the spirits and creatures of the island.

Nov 28, 2019 · Miller paid no regard to traditional ways of presenting a play. His 1970 production of The Tempest broke new ground by presenting it as a drama about colonialism – now a standard interpretation.

Performances in England directed by Jonathan Miller and by Clifford Williams explicitly portrayed Prospero as coloniser. Miller's production was described, by David Hirst, as depicting "the tragic and inevitable disintegration of a more primitive culture …

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, comedian and physician.