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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Tempest: A Brave New World of Creative Endeavour?
verfasst von : Sian Barber
Erschienen in: The British Film Industry in the 1970s
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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With its creative cinematography, innovative set designs and sublime costumes, Derek Jarman’s The Tempest (1979) is one of the most distinctive and exciting 1970s visual texts. Filmed entirely on location at Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire and Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland and financed by Don Boyd for £150,000, The Tempest was an innovative and evocative adaptation. Though lauded for its beauty and vision, some considered that Jarman’s film lacked coherence as much of Shakespeare’s dialogue and narrative were sacrificed. Jarman’s decision to cast non-Shakespearian actors was also heavily criticised, one reviewer termed this decision ‘audacious’ and the performances of magician and poet Heathcote Williams as Prospero, punk rock singer and actress Toyah Willcox as Miranda and blind physical actor Jack Birkett as Caliban were heavily scrutinised.1