"Holmes’ production does not ignore the play’s darker undercurrents and colonial overtones, but they are buried deeper in the mix than is sometimes the case. It is predominantly concerned with keeping the audience amused, and though it suffers from audibility and clarity issues to begin with."
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"Comedy. Definitely a comedy. Academics have long agonised about how to categorise 'The Tempest' but director Sean Holmes’s gleefully eccentric production is unequivocally comic."
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"Holmes' decision to use lunacy over sorcery is funny on occasions but it ultimately leaves a somewhat unsatisfied feeling.
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"Engaging and vital at some moments, flat and curiously lacking in impact at others. ... 'Tempest' suffused with visual japery but only intermittently in touch with the lasting and immutable magic that exists within the play itself."
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"It won’t go down in history as a revolutionary production, but as a crowd pleaser it’s inventive, compassionate and really just a pure joy."
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"It’s of a piece with a production that unpacks Shakespeare’s strange cargo without much care for precedent, and subjects it to fresh inspection."
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"It’s got some rough edges, and some of its conceits don’t work, but overall, this show is a sunny delight."
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“It’s certainly a refreshingly contemporary take, but it fails to follow through with its concept. There is no overarching image to act as an aesthetic nexus; the conceptual dots are never connected. It is a shame because individual aspects are undeniably worth our attention”
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