Ariel: Productions

Question 1

Davedent and Dryden

Answer 1

Introduced a set of additional characters: Ariel appears accompanied by a female sprite, Milcha- whether this implies a male Ariel is open to debate

Question 2

Derek Jarman’s film Tempest in 1979

Answer 2

Prospero played with brooding energy by the young Heathcote Williams, seemed perversly enjoy his enslavement of Ariel, but here Prospero is too introspective and melancholic to be a domineering father

Question 3

Marina Warner’s novel Indigo (1992)

Answer 3

A feminist and post colonialist revision of The Tempest, Sycorax is a wise woman reigning over an idyllic island with her fostor-daughter Ariel, only to be “colonised” by the Englishman Everard