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It is highly likely that a gifted and musical boy player represented Ariel: after all, each of the roles in which Ariel is cast by Prospero are female. 'Enter Mariners, wet', another direction later in the scene, indicates the simple effectiveness of Jacobean stage practice - imagine an enthusiastic stage-hand backstage, ready and armed with a brimming bucket!Īn accomplished boy player in the company took the role of Miranda.
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If that was not enough, a cannon-ball could be rolled down a wooden trough to produce more thunder or a loose length of canvas be turned on a wheel to simulate the sound of high winds. Playhouses of the time were equipped with fireworks and thunder-sheets for such effects.
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The Folio's opening stage direction requests: 'A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning'. Fine costumes, varied music and the appropriate use of props and visual effects are required by this challenging play but the action would have moved forwards swiftly and fluently, unhindered by elaborate scene changes. This was in addition to their long-established outdoor playhouse, the Globe. Shakespeare may well have written the play with an indoor playing space in mind because by the time The Tempest was written, the King's Men had begun to use the indoor Blackfriars Hall as a theatre.