Prospero the tempest3/5/2023 ![]() This work was donated in the name of Patricia Schecter, professor of history at Portland State University. ![]() See more of Rosemarie Beck's work on the Rosemarie Beck Foundation website. In 2015, PSU hosted Lyric Truth: Paintings, Drawings and Embroideries of Rosemarie Beck, a collaborative exhibition and symposium, in the Broadway Gallery. She was known for her joyous figure drawings, dense and colorful embroideries and large, rigorously organized paintings inspired by themes from classical mythology and literature. The daughter of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, Beck was a painter, needleworker, musician and journal writer. Rosemarie Beck was an American Abstract Expressionist and Figurative Expressionist painter associated with the New York School. This work depicts characters from Shakespeare's The Tempest, a play with which artist Rosemarie Beck was particularly fascinated and one of the first pieces of literature she took upon herself to illustrate. Located in Lincoln Hall 349, College of the Arts dean's office, reception area Allowing ourselves to be completely available and responsive is a truly frightening thing because it demands that we give up controlling or manipulatIng our partner or the scene to be what we’d prefer it to be.The Tempest (Prospero, Miranda, Ariel), 1976 This includes the given circumstances of the play and also our fellow actors. ![]() Can you expound on what you mean by viewing your work as “an act of love”?ĭoing the work we do as actors is rooted in our ability to be absolutely available and responsive to everything that is happening. I always view my work as an act of love (to the audience, to my fellow actors, to God, etc).īut when people witness the words of Shakespeare incarnated on stage, rather than trying to figure out the Bard, my hope would be for them to see a bit of humanity, a bit of me, a bit of you, and a bit of themselves reflected back at them to see the struggles, victories and defeats of humanity played out in front of them to see, even if only for a couple of hours, that their own struggles are not insurmountable, and that even on an island of isolation, they’re not alone. Being an actor demands absolute honesty with one’s humanity, and that can be a frightening thing, but it’s also very freeing. The challenge for me is not “taking on the Bard,” but instead to have the courage to step fully into myself using Shakespeare’s words. It’s a very troubling moment in the play, and it’s a frightening vision to step into as an actor. The Tempest was not Shakespeare’s last play, and Prospero’s speech which some call the Bard’s sentimental “farewell” to the theatre is actually a vision of fatalistic destruction. And that exactly makes limitation for the dramatic difficulties of the play. His powers of white magic know no limits. He is also a garrulous old map, pedantic and severe and with a high sense of his opinions. That being said, the conclusion that The Tempest is somehow Shakespeare’s bio-play or that Prospero is somehow a reincarnation of the playwright himself can only be reached by disregarding history and avoiding the play’s given circumstances. Prospero is a strong man, a sweet man, gracious man given to forgiveness. The arts will always be expressions of the soul. However, he is helped by his fairy servant, Ariel. We go hear a famous violinist because of the way she is able to play a bit of herself into her music. Prospero is the main character who uses magic as a supernatural force to regain his position as Duke of Milan. When you get into character, do you also take on a little of the Bard’s persona since some say Shakespeare wrote himself into the character of Prospero?īeing the greatest playwright that’s ever lived, Shakespeare wrote a bit of himself into every character in all of his plays and Prospero is no different in that respect. We hope to gift the audience with a well-told story that’s also a beautiful show, and not a beautiful show with a story in the background. Doing that work of specifying the story using the visual elements is what I enjoy the most. Any time I’m working in a show with great design elements it’s always a fantastic challenge to rise to, because the story always has to come first. Character Analysis Prospero - THE TEMPEST Character Analysis Prospero William Shakespeare Prospero is the rightful duke of Milan. It’s a great motivator for me to put even more time into the text and character work, and I always appreciate anything that forces me to make more specific choices as an actor. They certainly are incredible visuals, providing a tasty dessert which complements the meat of the story.
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