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Queer Theatre "The Tempest"

Theatre Firenze: December 14 to 19 of Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Teatro della Pergola .

The storm resembles a labyrinth .

Prospero, Duke of Milan, is ousted by his brother Antonio with the help of Alonso, King of Naples. Abandoned, together with a small daughter Miranda, on a lifeboat adrift at sea, miraculously lands on a desert island. Once here, thanks to its magic, free Ariel - spirit of the air - from the tree in which a witch Sicorax, had trapped and forced him to become a faithful executor of his every order. Even Caliban, be sneaky and naive, the son of Sicorax is subject to the power of the magician.

After twelve years of confinement, with its artifices, Prospero, a storm that is causing the sinking of a ship on which there are many noble Neapolitan, including his own brother Antonio and King Alonso, his son Ferdinand. All passengers arriving on the island but you save the young Ferdinand, under a spell, she finds herself alone and mourning the death of his father, who believes he has seen drowning. In his wanderings he meets and falls in love with Miranda. Across the island, meanwhile, also Alonso is convinced that her son is dead and Ariel, on the orders of his master, takes advantage for it to sink into a pain that leads him slowly to madness.

is thanks to this madness, in fact, that Prospero is able to obtain all of the repentance, forgiveness and giving his consent to the marriage of Miranda and Ferdinand. Finally, after giving up magic, returns to Ariel his freedom and set sail for Italy on the island, leaving only Caliban.

[ text by Andrea De Rosa took the Teatro della Pergola ]

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