Sounds and sweet airs: The Tempest's seductive musical sorcery
Composer Claire van Kampen on staging Shakespeare's late play with her husband Mark Rylance " and how music is his thumbprint as a playwrightThe first time I was involved with a production of The Tempest was in 1991, on the foundations of what became the new Globe in London. Sam Wanamaker had fought this long battle to raise a replica of Shakespeare's theatre on Bankside: he'd been going for decades by that point. Th…