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Best Shakespeare productions: what's your favourite Tempest? by Michael Billington

This stormy staple of the Shakespeare canon has appeared in many guises. But the great Giorgio Strehler's Italian version is our critics's top pick. What's your favourite version?I've experienced a deluge of Tempests in my time. My first was a memorable Peter Brook production in Stratford in 1957 with John Gielgud as Prospero. Here there many hints of the later Brook's love of simplicity: a large bowsprit swung in a …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34AM on May 12, 2014

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