$ On April 23rd, 1564 William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.

$ William Shakespeare was the 3rd of 8 children.

$ In 1582, at the age of 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who was 26. 6 months later their daughter Susanna was born.

$ On February 2nd, 1585 Shakespeare and his wife had twins, Judith and Hamnet.

$ In 1593 Shakespeare published his first work, Venus and Adoni, a narrative poem.

$ Shakespeare is listed among a company of actors known as The Lord Chamberlain’s Men in December of 1594.

$ In 1596 Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, died at the age of 11.

$ In 1599 The Globe Theater is built by The Lord Chamberlain’s Men on the River Thames.

$ In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, The Globe burned to the ground. It was rebuilt less than one year later.

$ April 23, 1616, Shakespeare dies on his 52nd birthday in his hometown.

$ 7 years after his death, 2 of Shakespeare’s colleagues published The First Folio, a collection of Shakespeare’s plays, in 1623.

$ William Shakespeare wrote 17 comedies, 10 tragedies, and 10 histories: a total of 37 plays

$ There are 1,361 lines in Shakespeare’s longest play, Antony and Cleopatra, and 605 in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s shortest play. There are 702 lines in The Tempest.

$ He wrote 154 sonnets

$ A Shakespearean sonnet is a poem of 14 lines.

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by William Shakespeare | directed by Kevin Moriarty | WYLY THEATRE | SEP9-OCT9

Dallas Theater Center’s production is part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, a national program of the National

Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts Midwest.

the

theStudyguide

BY the NUMB#RSShakespeare

Almost 400 years after his death, Shakespeare’s

works are performed,

studied and celebrated around the

globe, and yet few records of his private life survive today.

Little is known of the world's most famous

playwright Here is what we

things we do know….

The Tempest scenic rendering of the ending with Christmas lights, stars and snow by BEOWULF BORITT.

Dallas Theater Center would like to recognize the generosity of our major corporate partners.

Alon USA • Chase • Southwest Securities • Target t howard + associates • Well Fargo

Celebrating 25 years of Project Discovery

tem·pest /'tempist/ : (1) A violent storm. (2) tumult, uproar.

A great tempest shipwrecks King Alonso of Naples, his passengers

and his crew. Unbeknownst to them, the isolated, supernatural island where they find themselves

stranded is ruled by the sorcerer Prospero, who is the former Duke of Milan. Prospero ordered his

sprite, Ariel, to summon the storm, knowing that his deceitful brother, Antonio, the usurping Duke of

Milan, was among the passengers. Prospero’s daughter, Miranda, encounters Ferdinand (the King of

Naples’ son, who is wracked with grief thinking that his father has drowned) and the two immediately

fall in love. Prospero then captures the young prince and cruelly assigns him to hard labor, despite

the protests of his daughter. Elsewhere on the island, Ariel keeps an eye on the King and his fellow

castaways, protecting Prospero’s friend, Gonzalo, from the conspirators around him. Meanwhile

Caliban, a native of the island and slave to Prospero, leaves the sorcerer who (Caliban believes) has

stolen the island from him. When Caliban escapes he encounters two drunken sailors, Trinculo and

Stephano, who introduce him to the magic of liquor. The islander swears loyalty to the two sailors in

exchange for their help in overthrowing Prospero.

What will become of Miranda and Ferdinand’s love? How will Caliban’s fate be determined?

Where will these travelers find themselves when the storm has finally lifted?

top: Boritt at work in DTC's costume shop.center: Boritt's rendering of the feast and the harpy.

bottom: Boritt's concept for the "magic dog."

The first show of DTC’s 2011-2012 season is The Tempest, the last play Shakespeare ever wrote. What do you love about this story? I love doing almost any Shakespeare play, but The Tempest is such a lean, succinct text that it’s especially exciting. It’s fun to work on a master’s masterpiece. And for a designer, an island inhabited by a magician, a spirit, a monster (not to mention harpies and magic dogs), and a bevy of marooned Italians is a treat!

Not only are you the set designer for this upcoming production, but you are our costume designer as well! Have you taken on both roles before? What is most exciting about this task? I trained as a set and costume designer at Vassar and New York University, but over the years I’ve drifted to doing more scenery. Clothes are much harder as there’s a lot of minutiae that has to be dealt with, and my interest tends to be more "big picture." But, Shakespeare’s characters are so beautifully drawn that they allow a broad-stroke approach as a costume designer that makes it fun for me. When I design both set and clothes it gives me a chance to really fully determine the visual world of a play, and that’s fun once in a while!

The story of The Tempest takes place on a magical island. What inspired your design for Prospero's world? I knew I wanted to make both the set and the clothes pretty spare. Shakespeare wrote his work to be performed without a set, just on the bare stage of the Globe. Although The Tempest was never performed there, it bears many of the hallmarks of that style. I always feel Shakespeare works best on a set that has one strong visual idea, and The Tempest is no exception. I’ve made a circumscribed white space that is the island, but it’s as if the tempest Prospero has created has ravaged the island as well, so it bears the marks of a hurricane or earthquake. It serves as a reminder of the violence that banished Prospero from his dukedom. Initially I was dealing with more realistic colors and textures for the trees and earth

and grass of the island, but Director Kevin Moriarty looked at an unpainted version of the set, and thought the abstraction of making it all white helped make it feel magical and theatrical. He was right! So that’s what we’ve done.

What do you hope the costumes will tell us about the main characters of The Tempest? The clothes are intended to help tell the story. Prospero and the islanders all start in white, both to match the island where they live and to have the bleached out quality of clothes that have been worn and washed many times. The Italians enter in crisp, black clothes of the diplomatic governmental world. In the course of the play the environment makes the Italians look more like Prospero; and in the final moments of the play, as Prospero gains full control of the situation, he dons his old clothes from Italy, effectively reversing roles with his former oppressors. The choices of the details help establish who each person is, but the broad strokes of the visual are told by the mass of the clothes and how they change through the play.

Is there a particular costume that you are most excited to see on stage? If so, which one and, why the anticipation?Honestly, it’s the "magic dog."Usually this is done simply with a sound effect, but when I read the play, I thought it would be fun to see a fierce dog appear to chase Trinculo and Stephano. Making animal costumes can be difficult because they can look silly, or like they belong in a children’s play, so I’m nervous about how we do it. If we can’t pull it off, I guess we’ll resort to a sound effect, but I’m very excited about attempting the dog. In fact, it’s what made me want to design the clothes initially. When I re-read the play for the first time after agreeing to design the set, I thought “I want to design that dog!” and so I called Kevin and asked if I could design the costumes too. $

INTERvIEW WITH A DESIGNER

But did you know that most of his plays are based on other stories that already existed? Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello...

these are all based on epic poems, stories, actual history and even other plays. But for many years, scholars have been stumped

as to where Shakespeare got the idea for The Tempest. Today, it is widely believed that the real life tragic voyage of the

Sea Venture was the inspiration. On June 2, 1609, the Sea Venture set sail from Plymouth, England as the flagship

of a seven-ship fleet destined for Jamestown, VA . On July 24, the fleet ran into a strong storm and the ships

were separated. The Sea Venture fought the storm for three days. The hurricane swept the fleet toward

“the most dangerous and dreaded” islands of Bermuda. The archipelago had a reputation for terrible tempests. They were feared and avoided by all sea travelers above any other place in the world... It was said the deserted

islands were inhabited by devils, and wicked spirits! For the next nine months, the passengers were stranded—and given up for lost. During that time, “at the bottom of misery,” life went on: births, marriages,

five deaths, crimes, even a conspiracy. At the trial, one of the conspirators pled his

case so eloquently that the captain, with the consent of the group (and like Prospero in

The Tempest) forgave him.

For more parallels between the true account of the Sea Venture’s tragic shipwreck and The Tempest visit shakespeareauthorship.com/tempest.

html#4 and fas-history.rutgers.edu/clemens/Jamestown/Strachey.html

Shakespeare is the greatest playwright of the

top: Prospero (Chamblee Ferguson), the rightful Duke of milan and a powerful sorcerer; miranda (abbey siegworth), Prospero’s daughter who has been raised on the island; ariel (hunter ryan herDliCka), an airy spirit who serves Prospero; Caliban (Joe nemmers), a native of the island and slave to Prospero. bottom: alonso (matt tomlanoviCh), the king of naples; sebastian (ChristoPher Carlos), brother of the king; antonio (J. brent alForD), the usurping Duke of milan and Prospero’s brother; Ferdinand (steven miChael walters), son of the king of naples. Costume sketches by beowulF boritt.

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It’s fun to work on a master’s masterpiece. –Beowulf Boritt

English language!

Beowulf Boritt, our Set and Costume Designer for The Tempest

has has designed for big Broadway shows like Rock of Ages, as

well as scenery for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus! He

was happy to share a little inside info about his designs for our

upcoming production of The Tempest.

top: Boritt at work in DTC's costume shop.center: Boritt's rendering of the feast and the harpy.

bottom: Boritt's concept for the "magic dog."

The first show of DTC’s 2011-2012 season is The Tempest, the last play Shakespeare ever wrote. What do you love about this story? I love doing almost any Shakespeare play, but The Tempest is such a lean, succinct text that it’s especially exciting. It’s fun to work on a master’s masterpiece. And for a designer, an island inhabited by a magician, a spirit, a monster (not to mention harpies and magic dogs), and a bevy of marooned Italians is a treat!

Not only are you the set designer for this upcoming production, but you are our costume designer as well! Have you taken on both roles before? What is most exciting about this task? I trained as a set and costume designer at Vassar and New York University, but over the years I’ve drifted to doing more scenery. Clothes are much harder as there’s a lot of minutiae that has to be dealt with, and my interest tends to be more "big picture." But, Shakespeare’s characters are so beautifully drawn that they allow a broad-stroke approach as a costume designer that makes it fun for me. When I design both set and clothes it gives me a chance to really fully determine the visual world of a play, and that’s fun once in a while!

The story of The Tempest takes place on a magical island. What inspired your design for Prospero's world? I knew I wanted to make both the set and the clothes pretty spare. Shakespeare wrote his work to be performed without a set, just on the bare stage of the Globe. Although The Tempest was never performed there, it bears many of the hallmarks of that style. I always feel Shakespeare works best on a set that has one strong visual idea, and The Tempest is no exception. I’ve made a circumscribed white space that is the island, but it’s as if the tempest Prospero has created has ravaged the island as well, so it bears the marks of a hurricane or earthquake. It serves as a reminder of the violence that banished Prospero from his dukedom. Initially I was dealing with more realistic colors and textures for the trees and earth

and grass of the island, but Director Kevin Moriarty looked at an unpainted version of the set, and thought the abstraction of making it all white helped make it feel magical and theatrical. He was right! So that’s what we’ve done.

What do you hope the costumes will tell us about the main characters of The Tempest? The clothes are intended to help tell the story. Prospero and the islanders all start in white, both to match the island where they live and to have the bleached out quality of clothes that have been worn and washed many times. The Italians enter in crisp, black clothes of the diplomatic governmental world. In the course of the play the environment makes the Italians look more like Prospero; and in the final moments of the play, as Prospero gains full control of the situation, he dons his old clothes from Italy, effectively reversing roles with his former oppressors. The choices of the details help establish who each person is, but the broad strokes of the visual are told by the mass of the clothes and how they change through the play.

Is there a particular costume that you are most excited to see on stage? If so, which one and, why the anticipation?Honestly, it’s the "magic dog."Usually this is done simply with a sound effect, but when I read the play, I thought it would be fun to see a fierce dog appear to chase Trinculo and Stephano. Making animal costumes can be difficult because they can look silly, or like they belong in a children’s play, so I’m nervous about how we do it. If we can’t pull it off, I guess we’ll resort to a sound effect, but I’m very excited about attempting the dog. In fact, it’s what made me want to design the clothes initially. When I re-read the play for the first time after agreeing to design the set, I thought “I want to design that dog!” and so I called Kevin and asked if I could design the costumes too. $

INTERvIEW WITH A DESIGNER

But did you know that most of his plays are based on other stories that already existed? Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello...

these are all based on epic poems, stories, actual history and even other plays. But for many years, scholars have been stumped

as to where Shakespeare got the idea for The Tempest. Today, it is widely believed that the real life tragic voyage of the

Sea Venture was the inspiration. On June 2, 1609, the Sea Venture set sail from Plymouth, England as the flagship

of a seven-ship fleet destined for Jamestown, VA . On July 24, the fleet ran into a strong storm and the ships

were separated. The Sea Venture fought the storm for three days. The hurricane swept the fleet toward

“the most dangerous and dreaded” islands of Bermuda. The archipelago had a reputation for terrible tempests. They were feared and avoided by all sea travelers above any other place in the world... It was said the deserted

islands were inhabited by devils, and wicked spirits! For the next nine months, the passengers were stranded—and given up for lost. During that time, “at the bottom of misery,” life went on: births, marriages,

five deaths, crimes, even a conspiracy. At the trial, one of the conspirators pled his

case so eloquently that the captain, with the consent of the group (and like Prospero in

The Tempest) forgave him.

For more parallels between the true account of the Sea Venture’s tragic shipwreck and The Tempest visit shakespeareauthorship.com/tempest.

html#4 and fas-history.rutgers.edu/clemens/Jamestown/Strachey.html

Shakespeare is the greatest playwright of the

top: Prospero (Chamblee Ferguson), the rightful Duke of milan and a powerful sorcerer; miranda (abbey siegworth), Prospero’s daughter who has been raised on the island; ariel (hunter ryan herDliCka), an airy spirit who serves Prospero; Caliban (Joe nemmers), a native of the island and slave to Prospero. bottom: alonso (matt tomlanoviCh), the king of naples; sebastian (ChristoPher Carlos), brother of the king; antonio (J. brent alForD), the usurping Duke of milan and Prospero’s brother; Ferdinand (steven miChael walters), son of the king of naples. Costume sketches by beowulF boritt.

MA

IN C

HA

RA

CT

ER

S IN

tHe teM

PeSt

It’s fun to work on a master’s masterpiece. –Beowulf Boritt

English language!

Beowulf Boritt, our Set and Costume Designer for The Tempest

has has designed for big Broadway shows like Rock of Ages, as

well as scenery for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus! He

was happy to share a little inside info about his designs for our

upcoming production of The Tempest.

$ On April 23rd, 1564 William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.

$ William Shakespeare was the 3rd of 8 children.

$ In 1582, at the age of 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who was 26. 6 months later their daughter Susanna was born.

$ On February 2nd, 1585 Shakespeare and his wife had twins, Judith and Hamnet.

$ In 1593 Shakespeare published his first work, Venus and Adoni, a narrative poem.

$ Shakespeare is listed among a company of actors known as The Lord Chamberlain’s Men in December of 1594.

$ In 1596 Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, died at the age of 11.

$ In 1599 The Globe Theater is built by The Lord Chamberlain’s Men on the River Thames.

$ In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, The Globe burned to the ground. It was rebuilt less than one year later.

$ April 23, 1616, Shakespeare dies on his 52nd birthday in his hometown.

$ 7 years after his death, 2 of Shakespeare’s colleagues published The First Folio, a collection of Shakespeare’s plays, in 1623.

$ William Shakespeare wrote 17 comedies, 10 tragedies, and 10 histories: a total of 37 plays

$ There are 1,361 lines in Shakespeare’s longest play, Antony and Cleopatra, and 605 in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s shortest play. There are 702 lines in The Tempest.

$ He wrote 154 sonnets

$ A Shakespearean sonnet is a poem of 14 lines.

DallasTheaterCenter.org FOLLOW US ON:

by William Shakespeare | directed by Kevin Moriarty | WYLY THEATRE | SEP9-OCT9

Dallas Theater Center’s production is part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, a national program of the National

Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts Midwest.

the

theStudyguide

BY the NUMB#RSShakespeare

Almost 400 years after his death, Shakespeare’s

works are performed,

studied and celebrated around the

globe, and yet few records of his private life survive today.

Little is known of the world's most famous

playwright Here is what we

things we do know….

The Tempest scenic rendering of the ending with Christmas lights, stars and snow by BEOWULF BORITT.

Dallas Theater Center would like to recognize the generosity of our major corporate partners.

Alon USA • Chase • Southwest Securities • Target t howard + associates • Well Fargo

Celebrating 25 years of Project Discovery

tem·pest /'tempist/ : (1) A violent storm. (2) tumult, uproar.

A great tempest shipwrecks King Alonso of Naples, his passengers

and his crew. Unbeknownst to them, the isolated, supernatural island where they find themselves

stranded is ruled by the sorcerer Prospero, who is the former Duke of Milan. Prospero ordered his

sprite, Ariel, to summon the storm, knowing that his deceitful brother, Antonio, the usurping Duke of

Milan, was among the passengers. Prospero’s daughter, Miranda, encounters Ferdinand (the King of

Naples’ son, who is wracked with grief thinking that his father has drowned) and the two immediately

fall in love. Prospero then captures the young prince and cruelly assigns him to hard labor, despite

the protests of his daughter. Elsewhere on the island, Ariel keeps an eye on the King and his fellow

castaways, protecting Prospero’s friend, Gonzalo, from the conspirators around him. Meanwhile

Caliban, a native of the island and slave to Prospero, leaves the sorcerer who (Caliban believes) has

stolen the island from him. When Caliban escapes he encounters two drunken sailors, Trinculo and

Stephano, who introduce him to the magic of liquor. The islander swears loyalty to the two sailors in

exchange for their help in overthrowing Prospero.

What will become of Miranda and Ferdinand’s love? How will Caliban’s fate be determined?

Where will these travelers find themselves when the storm has finally lifted?