Shakespeare at the Guthrie

The Tempest. Presented at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 13 October—17 November 1991. Director, Jennifer Tipton; Set and Costumes, John Conklin; Lighting, Scott Zielinski; Sound Environment, Hans Peter Kuhn; Dramaturg, Michael Lupu. CAST: Alonso, Peter Thoemke; Antonio, Stephen Yoakam; Ariel, Kristin Flanders; Caliban, Christopher Bayes; Ferdinand, Shawn Hamilton; Gonzalo, Richard Ooms; Miranda, Jennifer Campbell; Prospero, Richard S. Iglewski; Sebastian, Stephen Pelinski; Stephano, John Bottoms; Trinculo, Richard Grusin.

I’ll tell you all my ideas about Looking-glass House. First, there’s the room you can see through the glass…. [T]he books are something like our books, only the words go the wrong way: I know that, because I’ve held up one of our books to the glass, and then they hold up one in the other room.

—Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

Now, Ariel, I am that I am, your late and lonely master,

Who knows now what magic is: the power to enchant

That comes from disillusion.

—W. H. Auden, “The Sea and the Mirror”