Royal Albert Hall, LondonA liberty-taking acrobatic rendering of The Tempest is sexualised but emotionally empty, while demoting the circus to incidental thrillsIn Shakespeare's The Tempest "the isle is full of noises. Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not." Not in Cirque du Soleil's version, it isn't. Cirque rechristen the island Amaluna and offer a female Prospero ruling over a frond-covered kingdom …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM on January 20, 2016