The Tempest CD Booklet
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William Shakespeare The Tempest Performed by Ian McKellen • Emilia Fox and full cast CLASSIC DRAMA NA230812D 1 Act 1 Scene 1 A ship at sea 0:32 2 Act 1 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, FERDINAND, GONZALO and others ALONSO Good boatswain, have care. 1:33 3 Act 1 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO and GONZALO BOATSWAIN Yet again? What do you here? Shall we give o’er and drown? 0:38 4 Act 1 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter MARINERS, wet BOATSWAIN What, must our mouths be cold? 1:11 5 Act 1 Scene 2 The island Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA MIRANDA If by your art, my dearest father, 10:27 6 Act 1 Scene 2 (cont.) Enter ARIEL ARIEL All hail, great master, grave sir, hail! 7:38 7 Act 1 Scene 2 (cont.) Enter CALIBAN CALIBAN As wicked dew as e’er my mother brushed 3:10 8 Act 1 Scene 2 (cont.) Enter FERDINAND and ARIEL, invisible ARIEL Come unto these yellow sands, 9:09 2 9 Act 2 Scene 1 A remote part of the island Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO and others GONZALO Beseech you, sir, be merry. 7:45 10 Act 2 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter ARIEL invisible SEBASTIAN We would so, and then go a-batfowling 1:01 11 Act 2 Scene 1 (cont.) Exit ARIEL SEBASTIAN What strange drowsiness possesses them? 6:25 12 Act 2 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter ARIEL, invisible ARIEL My master through his art foresees the danger 1:53 13 Act 2 Scene 2 Near Caliban’s cave Enter CALIBAN CALIBAN All the infections that the sun sucks up 0:47 14 Act 2 Scene 2 (cont.) Enter TRINCULO CALIBAN Lo, now lo! 2:24 15 Act 2 Scene 2 (cont.) Enter STEPHANO STEPHANO I shall no more to sea, to sea, 9:27 3 16 Act 3 Scene 1 Near Prospero’s cave Enter FERDINAND FERDINAND There be some sports are painful, 1:07 17 Act 3 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter MIRANDA and PROSPERO MIRANDA Alas, now pray you 4:36 18 Act 3 Scene 2 Near Caliban’s cave Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO and TRINCULO STEPHANO Tell not me. 2:38 19 Act 3 Scene 2 (cont.) Enter ARIEL invisible CALIBAN As I told thee before, 7:08 20 Act 3 Scene 3 A remote part of the island Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO and others GONZALO By’r lakin, I can go no further, sir 1:07 21 Act 3 Scene 3 (cont.) Enter PROSPERO ALONSO What harmony is this? 2:32 22 Act 3 Scene 3 (cont.) Enter ARIEL, like a harpy ARIEL You are three men of sin, 2:14 4 23 Act 3 Scene 3 (cont.) PROSPERO Bravely the figure of this harpy has thou 2:01 24 Act 4 Scene 1 Near Prospero’s cave Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND and MIRANDA PROSPERO If I have too austerely punished you 1:48 25 Act 4 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter ARIEL ARIEL What would my potent master? 1:17 Act 4 Scene 1 (cont.) 26 The Masque Enter IRIS IRIS Ceres, most bounteous lady, 1:09 27 Act 4 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter CERES CERES Hail, many-coloured messenger, 1:39 28 Act 4 Scene1 (cont.) [JUNO descends] IRIS Highest queen of state, Great Juno comes, 2:45 29 Act 4 Scene 1 (cont.) IRIS You sun-burned sicklemen of August weary, 0:16 30 Act 4 Scene 1 (cont.) PROSPERO I had forgot that foul conspiracy 2:07 5 31 Act 4 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter ARIEL ARIEL Thy thoughts I cleave to. 1:52 32 Act 4 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO and TRINCULO CALIBAN Pray you tread softly, 4:39 33 Act 5 Scene 1 Near Prospero’s cave Enter PROSPERO and ARIEL PROSPERO Now does my project gather to a head. 4:04 34 Act 5 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter ALONSO, GONZALO, SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO PROSPERO A solemn air, and the best comforter 2:48 35 Act 5 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter ARIEL ARIEL Where the bee sucks, there suck I 5:28 36 Act 5 Scene 1 (cont.) PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA MIRANDA Sweet lord, you play me false. 2:32 37 Act 5 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter ARIEL with the MASTER and BOATSWAIN GONZALO O look sir, look, sir, here is more of us! 2:29 38 Act 5 Scene 1 (cont.) Enter ARIEL with CALIBAN, STEPHANO and TRINCULO STEPHANO Every man shift for all the rest, 5:18 Total time: 2:07:56 6 William Shakespeare The Tempest CAST Alonso, King of Naples Roger Hammond Sebastian, his brother John McAndrew Prospero, Duke of Milan Ian McKellen Antonio, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan Neville Jason Miranda, daughter of Prospero Emilia Fox Ferdinand, son to the King of Naples Benedict Cumberbatch Gonzalo, an honest old councillor David Burke Adrian, a lord Simon Treves Francisco, a lord Tim Bentinck Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Ben Onwukwe Trinculo, a jester Ian Talbot Stephano, a drunken butler John Hodgkinson Master Simon Treves Boatswain Tim Bentinck Ariel, an airy spirit Scott Handy Juno Elaine Claxton Ceres Laura Paton Director John Tydeman Recording and Editing Engineer Mike Etherden Studio Manager Peter Novis Producer Nicolas Soames Recorded at RNIB Talking Book Studios, London 7 William Shakespeare The Tempest SYNOPSIS work; and Miranda is put to sleep. When Act 1 Scene 1: Thunder. Lightning. A she awakes she sees Ferdinand, whom Ariel tempest at sea drives a ship carrying Alonso, has led to her by song, and they instantly King of Naples, Ferdinand, his son, and fall in love. Prospero (who has planned all Antonio, Duke of Milan, plus sundry this) responds sternly and puts Ferdinand to courtiers travelling from Tunis after the hard labour. marriage of the King’s daughter, onto rocks Act 2 Scene 1: Elsewhere on the island and is wrecked with the loss, it is assumed, the good Gonzalo tries to cheer up King of all aboard. Alonso who is grieving for Ferdinand’s Act 1 Scene 2: On a nearby island, supposed death. Ariel puts the two of them Prospero, the usurped Duke of Milan, and to sleep during which Antonio persuades his daughter, Miranda, watch the storm the King’s brother, Sebastian, to kill Alonso which he confesses to having caused by and grab the crown. At the point of murder magic with the help of his servant spirit, Ariel awakens the King and Gonzalo, who Ariel, whom he has released from become suspicious upon seeing drawn imprisonment by Sycorax, the former ruler swords, and the four men go off in search of the island, and mother of Caliban, a of survivors of the wreck. misshapen monster who is also in his Act 2 Scene 2: Two survivors are service. Prospero abates the tempest and Trinculo, a jester, and Stephano, a butler, tells his daughter their past history, how his who is drunk on salvaged wine. Caliban, brother ousted him with the aid of the King seeing Trinculo, thinks him to be a spirit of Naples and how he and his baby sent to haunt him and hides under a daughter were put to sea in a small boat, gaberdine cloak. Trinculo, frightened by a loaded with his magic books placed there storm, hides under the same cloak. by a kindly courtier, Gonzalo, and how they Stephano, inebriated, sees what he takes to arrived on the island and ‘colonised’ it. Ariel be a monster of the island. He gives Caliban is despatched, invisible, to find Ferdinand, a drink and he agrees to serve the two men the King’s son; Caliban is called and set to if they give him more drink and he’ll then 8 be free of Prospero’s masterdom. reapers Prospero remembers Caliban’s plot Act 3 Scene 1: Ferdinand appears against him and abruptly ends the magical carrying heavy logs and Miranda expresses proceedings. Ariel tempts the three drunken her pity and love for him. Overheard by an would-be assassins on with glittering unseen and approving Prospero, they vow frippery hanging on a line. Then he and to marry. Prospero chase them away with spirits Act 3 Scene 2: Encouraged by an disguised as hunting-hounds. Prospero invisible Ariel, Trinculo, Stephano and muses that all his enemies are now at his Caliban quarrel in a comic fashion and they mercy. agree to murder Prospero and set Stephano Act 5 Scene 1: Arrayed in his magic up as King of the island with Miranda as his robes, Prospero hears of the afflictions Ariel consort and Caliban and Trinculo as has wrought on his enemies and shows viceroys. Ariel, still unseen, leads them off some compassion for them and, since they to a catch sung to pipe and tabor. are penitent, he will not seek vengeance on Act 3 Scene 3: Alonso and the hungry them. In a trance Alonso and the others are courtiers behold a banquet laid out for led in by Ariel. Prospero promises to them by spirits. They are about to eat when renounce his magic powers and disrobes as Ariel, as a harpy, makes the banquet a magus to reveal himself to the surprised disappear and confronts them with their King and courtiers as the rightful Duke crimes and sins. Full of guilt and remorse of Milan and offers forgiveness and and believing the death of his son to be a reconciliation. Ferdinand is restored to his judgement upon him, Alonso goes to find father and Miranda introduced to him. Ferdinand’s corpse and to die beside him.