Prospero's Books

John Gielgud plays The Tempest’s Prospero, and Greenaway experiments with digital techniques to further his vision.

Greenaway adapts Shakespeare’s The Tempest, abandoning established narrative structures and employing innovative digital techniques alongside mime and dance to present a work of beauty and precision. John Gielgud gives a performance of astonishing breadth, playing both Prospero and, ultimately, Shakespeare himself. The result is an extraordinary, illusory work that perfectly reflects Greenaway’s unique, uncompromising sensibility.