Can one seriously imagine that the Bard, who wrote so stunningly of the sea, never truly saw it? Royal Shakespeare Company associate director David Farr on the power that the ocean held over the poet. From the book Living With Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors.
David Farr is an English playwright and screenwriter. He is Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and he previously served as Artistic Director at the Lyric Hammersmith, Bristol Old Vic, and Gate theatres. The Shakespeare plays he has directed include Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, The Winter’s Tale, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, for which he won the Theatrical Management Association Award for Best Director. His plays include The Queen Must Die, Night of the Soul, and Metamorphosis; he has written for the television show Spooks and is coauthor of the film Hanna.
Tempest