The Tempest

One of my favourite sci-fi B-movies from the 1950s.

It's actually based on Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Oh, yes.

It stars Lesley Nielsen and Forbidden Planet.

A couple of Shakespeare's.

We're going to do The Tempest and The Winter's Tale.

And we're also going to do, as we're moving into autumn after this extraordinary summer that we've all had, we're going to do a few poems on autumn.

And there are some obvious ones and one or two less obvious ones.

This recording is in the public domain.

when in the chronicle of wasted time i see descriptions of the fairest whites and beauty-making beautiful old rhyme in praise of ladies dead and lovely knights then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best of hand of foot of lip of eye of brow i see their antique pen would have expressed even such a beauty as you master now so all their praises are but prophecies of this our time all you prefiguring and for they looked but with divining eyes they had not skill enough your worth to sing for we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder but lack tongues to praise sonnet one hundred sixteen let me not to the marriage let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments love is not love which alters when it alteration finds or bends with the remover to remove oh no it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown although his height be taken love's not time's fool though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickles compass come love alters not with his brief hours and weeks but bears it out even to the edge of doom if this be error and upon me proved i never writ nor no man ever loved Song from The Tempest by William Shakespeare.

Read for LibriVox.org. full fathom five thy father lies of his bones are coral made those are pearls that were his eyes nothing of him that doth fade but doth suffer a sea change into something rich and strange sea nymphs hourly ring his knell ding dong Hark! Now I hear them.

Ding! Dong! Bell! End of poem.

I like how the last track on the album, Fearless Movement, is called Prologue.

It's kind of an existential invocation of the line from Shakespeare's The Tempest, which is, what's past is prologue.

And the beautiful video behind it I'm wondering, performing that track, that song live, is there any choreography? I know the venues are different as far as the stage size and all of that.

And it's beautiful even without the choreography.

Much Ado About Nothing, it's a comedy.

I was also in The Tempest.

I don't know if you've heard of that one.

Tempest is about, I think they crash on an island and they're trapped there.

So we have lots of really good stuff.

And anybody that's a Shakespeare fan, the play The Tempest will be acted out in Cotton Park on Saturday, the 25th of September.

We will have a rain date on Sunday, the 26th, but hopefully we won't have to use the rain date.

So the members of ACT, which is a community theater, they will be performing, and the play is directed by Richard Haynes.