Tempest

Paper Assignment 1

Design your own production of one scene from The Tempest in detail, explaining costume choices, stage directions, and any other instructions you would have for the actors. You are the director here and your goal is to imagine a creative and surprising production of a scene from the play, one that expresses your understanding of the play and how it could be performed for a modern audience. Include details of how you want actors to deliver specific lines. Your instructions should be sufficient for an actual production. If you want, you may change the setting of the play (e.g. to the moon, to an island in the Black Sea etc.); you may also choose real-life actors for the roles, and tell me why those specific actors would be appropriate for the characters.

Tempest Theatre Game
Before determining the clothes, actors and the details firstly, I have to know when this book was written by Shakespeare and when did the story happen. This game was written in 1611. This story tells us the events, which is on the island during 4 hours. Because of island is the place which events happen, I use a lot of wave, wind and storm voices. The other important point is the time, all of the game include 4 hours and Act 1, scene 2 include less than 4 hours because of this I have to choose decors related to this time interval. After I consider all of these conditions, I should determine the actors of my game. In this scene Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Caliban and Ferdinand have some roles.
Firstly, I want to choose Ariel. In Tempest act 4, scene 1, Prospero says to Ariel “This was well done my bird” (line 184) and he add in act 4 scene 1 “ That is my dainty Ariel! ”(line 95). After I read these words, when I try to imagine air sp...

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...make you/ The queen of Naples.”(page 125-125 line 448-450) Prospero thinks this process move quickly and the wants to decrease the quickness. And he doubts about Ferdinand and Prospero is not polite to Ferdinand. In this scene, Prospero’s voice should be stable and harsh. Therefore, audience can understand her father’s feelings because being a father of girl is different to everything.
In this process, Miranda is also falling in love with Ferdinand and she is so sad when his father is rude to Ferdinand. In this scene, there is a pianist on the scene and he plays piano softly. When Ferdinand draws the sword, pianist presses the major musical notes and increases tension. And Prospero do magic and Ferdinand petrifies. When Ferdinand resigns himself to losing this challenge, piano plays smooth music and the three of them and Ariel slowly move out of the scene.
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