“I felt - oh, Prospero can be a climate scientist and he can live in this remote northern island with his daughter. One was her love for the natural world: “I’ve always had a strong feel for the natural world, often being more at home with the non-human than the human.” Another was the presence in her life of a sister who is a climate scientist with Environment Canada. But here he was a forceful, virile powerful figure who at the end doesn’t want to give up that power, and that really opened up the play for me as a metaphor for the human condition.”Īnother startling aspect of that production was its Arctic setting, and as Bush felt more and more drawn to the idea of a cautionary tale about environmental disaster, various elements were coming into play. “Too often Prospero is an old bearded man with a teenage daughter. ![]() But she has never forgotten Stewart’s portrayal. ![]() “It’s always hard to know where the spark of a novel comes from,” Bush, 59. Several years ago, Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company mounted a groundbreaking production starring Patrick Stewart as Prospero, the powerful sorcerer living in embittered exile on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda. ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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