Christopher Plummer’s “The Tempest” Appearance: Stratford Presentation Scrapped
September 6th, 2009 - 6:38 pm ICT by GDBy Meena Kar
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival has reportedly scrapped the scheduled production of “The Tempest” at the Luminato festival for June 2010. Canadian actor Christopher Plummer after having enacted the roles of King Lear, Julius Caesar and John Barrymore at Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival, was getting ready to fit in the shoes of the character Prospero.
He would have played the paradoxical character Prospero, the central figure of “The Tempest”, which was one of the 12 productions scheduled for the 2010 season at Stratford, one of the major theatres in North America.
The 79 year old Plummer has been honored with the Tony Award in the year 1997 for “Barrymore”, and had all the qualities required to play the intriguing Shakespearean characters which constitute an innate authenticity and universality of human weaknesses, follies and virtues. It is the iconic representation of humaneness that give the plays a relevant place in our modern society, even today.
The play was cancelled owing to some cost troubles linked to the project execution, about which the Stratford general director Antoni Cimolino said in a Thursday interview, “We’d have had to have sold every ticket (in Toronto), and even then that would not have been sufficient to break even. The mathematics simply did not work.” Such financial turmoil that interrupt artistic works are indeed irksome specially for those who look forward to the indulgence in serious Arts and Literature, which is absolutely spared or limited on television or the silver-screen.
A couple of thousands of dollars have come in the way of inborn talents like Plummer who are a exclusive class of seasoned play-actors.
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