Une Tempête (English:"A Tempest"[2]) is a 1969 play by Aimé Césaire. It is an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest from a postcolonial perspective, set on an island in the Caribbean. The play was first performed at the Festival d'Hammamet in Tunisia under the direction of Jean-Marie Serreau. It later played in Avignon and Paris. Césaire uses all of the characters from Shakespeare's version, with some additions and new renderings of the original cast.
In this version, Césaire specifies that Prospero is a white master, while Ariel is a mulatto and Caliban is a black slave.[3] These characters are the focus of the play as Césaire emphasized issues of race, power, decolonization, and anti-imperialism.
