The Tempest

Director: Derek Jarman

Stars: Toyah Willcox, Karl Johnson, Elisabeth Welch, Heathcote Williams

Year: 1979 Running Time: 96 mins Rating:

Derek Jarman's provocative version of Shakespeare's last play, starring poet Heathcote Williams as exiled duke Prospero and rock singer Toyah Willcox as his daughter Miranda.

Review

Derek Jarman's wild contemporary version of Shakespeare's play. Here, the controversial director turns the bard's story of sorcery, revenge, plot and counterplot into a catalogue of the grotesque and the bizarre. The highlight is veteran singer Elisabeth Welch's version of Stormy Weather at the end.