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Mumbai to witness musical pantomime version of Shakespeare's play The Tempest

<p>Do only words maketh William Shakespeare? Certainly not, say the makers of The Tempest, who are set to showcase the playwright&rsquo;s genius in a Broadway-style pantomime</p>

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It's a story of good vs evil. Two brothers — the decent-always busy Prospero, the Duke of Milan and an ambitious and unscrupulous Antonio. Mani-pulating the king’s weak character, Antonio orders Prospero’s ouster and becomes the Duke himself. Fate intervenes and the story shifts to an island populated by an evil witch, Sycorax, a spirit called Ariel and Caliban, a creature from the underground. Pros-pero and his daughter Miranda live on the island by enslaving Ariel and banishing the witch. Sixteen years later, using magical powers, Prospero creates a storm to drown a ship carrying the weak king, his son Ferdinand and the evil Antonio. The spirit guides them onto the island where romance blooms between Miranda and Ferdinand; the king sees the brothers for who they are. With the wrongdoers forgiven, the ship returns to Milan with Ferdinand crowned as the king and Miranda, his queen.

A scene from the musical pantomime play, The Tempest, which returns to the city after two years, after a pan-India run
A scene from the musical pantomime play, The Tempest, which returns to the city after two years, after a pan-India run

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