Prospero as a ruler: Productions

Question 1

1982 Derek Jacobi’s performance

Answer 1

Sported an “almost eccesiastical magic cloak”

Question 2

1992 Ninagawa’s Japanese version

Answer 2

Identified Prospero as the “director” of the company, and he used his arrow/wand to perform his magic, but he also used it to conduct his musicians

Question 3

2002 Sheffield production

Answer 3

A huge sail magically disappeared down a hole onto which Prospero slammed the cover of a heavy book, and then picked the book up as if he had crammed the entire storm tidily back into its pages