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PATRICK MARMION reviews The Tempest: Tempest meets Alien... but Sigourney has no chance to weave her magic
PATRICK MARMION: Hollywood veteran Sigourney Weaver teleported into London to make her long-overdue West End debut in a sci-fi version of The Tempest.
Below these, Prospero’s spirit assistant Ariel, played by Mason Alexander Park, works his master’s magic as an air-borne glam rock star, wearing a blond wig, ruff and corset. And Forbes Masson has a great deal of subversive fun as a sweatier planetary resident, Caliban, performing lewd gestures in black S&M leather pants and wrestling boots. If the complexities of the plot in which Prospero teaches her former rivals a lesson are lost in a pruned version of the text, the big gain is the enchantment of music composed by Ben and Max Ringham with Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante.
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