Caliban: Productions

Question 1

Jonathan Miller’s 1970 production

Answer 1

Caliban and Ariel played by black actors and Ariel appeared as a nearly assimilated hybrid of coloniser and colonised culture

Question 2

Denis Quilleys 1974

Answer 2

Caliban had “bisected” makeup “on one half the ugly scrofulous monster whom Prospero sees, on the other an image of the noble savage”

Question 3

G. Wilson Knight 1938

Answer 3

Adopted a costume that emphasised strangeness rather than mosntrosity
Two years later the old vic performance still represented Caliban as monkey-like