Ariel's liberty.
| Publisher | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Publication | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Subject | Arts, visual and performing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0748-2558 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2008-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Julian Bleach |
| Person | Works | Julian Bleach |
| Author | n/a | Katherine Steele Brokaw |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | William Shakespeare |
| Person | Works | William Shakespeare |
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In Rupert Goold's RSC Tempest, set in the Arctic rather than on the traditional tropical island, Julian Bleach's Ariel skulks lugubriously through the three-hour production in a long, black, clerical robe, his face made up in pale white make-up. Described by reviewers as "the most compelling feature of the production," "eerie, sonorous, and utterly original," and a "brilliant re-imagining of Ariel [that] is destined to live longest in the mind," Bleach performs an Ariel unlike any that had ever been seen, and this in a four-hundred year old play as over-performed as The Tempest...
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