Tempest: A Screenplay

ISBN-10: 0933826400
ISBN-13: 9780933826403
Series: Tempest
Pages: 92
Language: English
Published: 1982
Publisher: Performing Arts Journal Publications
Authors: Paul Mazursky, Leon Capetanos

Description

Philip, the prospero figure whose magic wand is replaced here by a telescope, and his magical gifts transposed to vague astronomical predictions, is an architect/artist in the employ of Alonzo, a casino developer in Atlantic City. Disillusioned by urban complacency and deeply entrenched in mid-life crisis, Philip leaves behind his job and wife to search for inner peace. He heads for a Greek island with his daughter Miranda, hoping to come to terms both with his Greek roots and with nature. Nature greets him there in the figure of Kalibanos, a lascivious goatherd whose primal innocence has already been corrupted by pop music and the television programs he watches on the Sony T.V. in his cave.