A review by ralowe
A Tempest by Aimé Césaire

2.0

i don't know what else to say except i got a thing for the tempest. there were two really good screen adaptations of shakespeare in the late '80s early '90s that did it: 1.) first (not film chronologically but in the sequence of this paragraph (for effect)) there's richard the third with the gay who would become gandalf and magneto ian mckellen playing gloucester set in a fascist world war ii england and 2.) peter greenaway's prospero's books with sir john geilgud as prospero. oo-wee prospero's books. i know they were aiming at the adhd crowd with that and it works. i've become obsessed with ariel, caliban and sicorax. who is sicorax? this book doesn't really go into who sicorax was. this book focuses heavily on caliban, of course. there's some stuff between caliban/ariel and caliban/prospero, but not with as much enthusiasm or wit as i would like. it feels really bare minimum. like a communist catechism. it's for teaching the basics of the colonial relation. and nothing else. perhaps it brings forward certain fuckedupedness that wasn't apparent in the original play. aside from presenting those things it doesn't do much more with it. this could go much further. still it's pretty creative...