Cold Year Of The Spider

'Rough magic' on tap for Old Globe's 'Tempest'

For centuries, Shakespeare scholars have debated whether Prospero, the aging sorcerer in the late romance "The Tempest," was actually the playwright's alter ego, and whether Prospero's final soliloquy ---- "Our revels now are ended ... We are such stuff as dreams are made on" ---- was really the Bard's retirement speech.

Actor Miles Anderson, who plays Prospero in the Globe's "Tempest" opening Sunday, is a believer. The L.A.-based actor said he thinks Shakespeare intended to say goodbye to the world of the theater after "The Tempest" and settle into a comfortable retirement (he came out of retirement to co-write "Two Noble Kinsmen" with John Fletcher, perhaps to pay debts after his Globe theater burned down in 1613).

"He didn't intend to write any more plays after that, and I think that it's him saying, at the end, this wonderful speech about the impermanent nature of life," Anderson said. "It's a very human play, and Prospero finds his humanity in the course of the story. When it starts out, he's an angry man, a passionate man, but he learns to forgive. He's a sad man saying goodbye to the world and to plays."

Prospero is one of the most challenging roles in all of Shakespeare, with 560 lines of very difficult text. And on top of that, Anderson is also playing Antonio Salieri in another festival production, "Amadeus," which has more than 1,200 lines.

But Anderson is easily up to the task. Last year, he rescued the Globe festival's production of "The Madness of George III" when the original star dropped out just two days before rehearsals were scheduled to begin (Patrick Page was offered the plum role of The Green Goblin in Broadway's troubled "Spider-Man" musical).

Anderson ---- a veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Bristol Old Vic, and an old friend and colleague of Globe festival artistic director Adrian Noble ---- happened to be living in L.A. and had the summer free when the frantic call came in from the Old Globe.

Anderson stepped in on a day's notice, learned the role in a matter of weeks, and won both the hearts of the audience and the region's top acting honor for his performance as King George ---- the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle's Craig Noel Award.

This year, Anderson has two huge roles to play, but had the luxury of time to learn the lines this time. He started memorizing last fall, so he knew them both when rehearsals began in April (he said he still needs to run lines for both shows daily or else they "evaporate into the ether"). Salieri was the role Anderson said he was most excited about until he started working on the scripts, then he grew to love Prospero more.

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