The Tempest Magic Hands

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ALL: Magic Hands.

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Magic Hands!

BOTH: Hello.

My name is...

Donna.

And my name is...

Simon.

Look at what my hands can do.

It's a ship.

Oh, it's being blown around by the wind.

That makes me think of a play by a

famous poet called William Shakespeare.

It is called The Tempest.

THUNDERCLAP

In the story, a young girl called Miranda

lives on an island with her father who's a magician.

When we meet her, she's worried that her father's created

a terrible storm with his magical powers.

She saw a ship sailing right into the tempest.

Will there be a shipwreck?

Let's find out.

Are you ready?

MAGICAL MUSIC

If by your art, my dearest father,

you have put the wild waters in this roar...

..allay them.

The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch.

But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,

dashes the fire out.

Oh, I have suffered with those that I saw suffer.

A brave vessel who had, no doubt,

some noble creature in her,

dashed all to pieces.

Oh, the cry did knock against my very heart.

Poor souls, they perished.

What do you think so far?

Do we think the people on the boat are going to be OK?

It seems that Miranda was right.

Her father, Prospero, created the magical storm.

He did it because the king on the ship

stole his crown and took his country.

Now, he has set up the storm in revenge.

But to do it, Prospero needed help from his fairy, Ariel.

I wonder what's going to happen.

Hast thou, spirit, performed to point the tempest that I bade thee?

To every article.

I boarded the king's ship.

Now on the beak, now in the waist, the deck...

..in every cabin, I flamed amazement.

Sometime I'd divide, and burn in many places.

On the topmast, the yards, and bowsprit

would I flame distinctly.

But are they, Ariel, safe?

Not a hair perished.

Not a hair perished.

And, as thou badest me, in troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle.

Ariel, Prospero's spirit, wants even more fun.

She's put the prince, Ferdinand, on the shore alone.

Now, Ariel decides it's time to have more fun teasing him

by hiding and singing a song about the king, his father,

who he thinks has drowned.

WAVES ROLL

# Full fathom five thy father lies

# Of his bones are coral made

# Those are pearls that were his eyes

# Nothing of him that doth fade

# But doth suffer a sea-change

# Into something rich and strange. #

The ditty does remember my drowned father.

This is no mortal business,

nor no sound that the earth owes.

I hear it now above me.

Wow, Ariel was teasing Ferdinand badly.

Remember, the young prince's father hasn't drowned at all.

He's still alive,

but he's stuck on the other side of the island.

It's all part of Prospero's magical plan.

Now, Prospero is going to show Ferdinand to Miranda.

I wonder why he's going to do that.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance

and say what thou seest yond.

What is't? A spirit?

Lord, how he looks about.

Believe me, sir,

it carries a brave form.

He's something stained, with grief that's beauty's canker.

Thou mightst call him a goodly person.

He hath lost his fellows And strays about to find 'em.

I might call him a thing divine,

for nothing natural I ever saw so noble.

Miranda and Ferdinand decided to get married.

It's a happily-ever-after,

and there were no more storms or shipwrecks.

-Bye-bye.

-Bye.

DOG BARKS

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# My magic hands

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