Shakespeare's storm of revenge — but she's not angry, she's *calculating*.
In Shakespeare’s great drama of loss and reconciliation, a long-deposed ruler uses magical arts to bring within her power the enemies who robbed her of her throne and marooned her on a remote island. But what revenge does she mean to take?
Acting
Martha Henry's Prospera: 50 years of stage craft in one role.
Production
Bare stage becomes infinite island through sheer theatrical will.
Direction
Avrich captures live electricity without killing its intimacy.
Director
Antoni Cimolino
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Martha Henry was 83 during filming, making this her final major performance after 55 years at Canada's Stratford Festival. She'd played Miranda at 22.
The gender swap wasn't trendy revisionism — director Cimolino cast Henry because she'd aged into the role's authority. Prospera's 'rough magic' speech becomes elegy for a career.
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