The RSC's tech-powered production of Shakespeare's island play suffers badly after transfer from thrust to prosceniumCan The Tempest open on stage without a tempest " of crashing, shrieking and torment " and thus without what can become five minutes-plus of inaudibility? In Gregory Doran's 2016 Stratford production for the RSC, revived at the Barbican Theatre, the answer is, as so often, no. Joe Shire, D…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:32AM on July 8, 2017