[a] lightly bearded Prospero in a grass-green robe...indelibly stamped with dyspeptic frostiness... quietly seething with age-old resentment.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard
- Date
- 1998
- Copyright
- ©
...a youngish man with dark, hidden eyes, his hands casually thrust into his pockets. He is not the grim island potentate most actors offer us, but a very private man: withdrawn, wary, contemptuous of show.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Benedict Nightgale, New Statesman
- Date
- 1979
- Copyright
- ©
...a man who has elected to play God and who finds it hard to return to the prosaic trappings of mortality.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Michael Billington, Guardian
- Date
- 1982
- Copyright
- ©
...an imperious figure, calm and collected, but with a powerful undercurrent of irascibility which he firmly controls. He has fierce watchful eyes...
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- John Peter, Sunday Times
- Date
- 1993
- Copyright
- ©
appearing in the handsome stamp of an Old Testament prophet in the wilderness... [with] a pensive cast of feature and a scrupulous quality in his behaviour as if he were a magician very unwilling to make arbitrary use of his powers.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Derek Granger, Financial Times
- Date
- 1957
- Copyright
- ©
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