An adorably entertaining performance of what is perhaps Shakespeare's most eventfully problematic play The Tempest at NIDA.
The young cast did a marvellous job in terms of acting and the director showed great wisdom in not trying to do too much to contemporize the classic. A play like this is always already our contemporary. The Australian context remained implicit in the colonial allegory within the play and yet it wasn't overplayed.
A special mention must be made of the extremely creative and dynamic use of the stage and its two axes to create the spell of magic in ambience. The splits, the undulations, the stage within the stage, resembling the Greek proscenium in miniature and the ladders popping up from nowhere made it a magically multidimensional entity.
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