Join Mitchel Kawash, Will McKay, Jen Greenwald and Ariana Karp as we discuss Act III of The Tempest!

• The groups which were established in the first and second acts continue in the third act - Miranda and Ferdinand, Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo and the nobles with Ariel and Prospero flitting in and out of the scenes
• Miranda proposes the marriage - aligning her with other Shakespearean heroines like Rosalind and Juliet
• Miranda being directly disobedient for the first time in the scene
• Miranda’s innocence coming from ignorance as opposed to status and breeding
• The clowns scene - the high level of drunkeness! 
• Caliban and Ariel have the agendas in 3.2
• Is Ariel distinctive from the magic of the island? or Is Ariel the magic of the island?
• Is Ariel appearing as the Harpy Prospero’s ultimate plan for Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian?
• Is Prospero’s pursuit of power and revenge become on par with Antonio’s pursuit of political power
• Shakespeare and tapping in the gray area of humanity
• Supernatural as a manifestation of a concept

Julian Bleach as Ariel in Harpy form in the RSC's 2006 production directed by Rupert Goold.