Caliban by the Yellow Sands: A Community Masque of the Art of the Theatre

A community masque reimagines Shakespearean figures to meditate on the theatre as a civilizing art that liberates imagination from brute force and ignorance. It stages symbolic encounters between a passionate, striving Caliban and primeval powers embodied by Setebos and Sycorax, while Prospero, Miranda, and Ariel represent guiding, artistic forces. Structured with a prologue, interludes, three acts and an epilogue, the piece blends choral ritual, visual tableaux, and practical staging material to promote communal performance and civic engagement.