The Tempest

From "Don't Call Me a Star" by Paul Gardner, New Times, March 1974:

"Take away all the plays I did for Joe Papp," say Sam, dismissing a long list of Off-Broadway flops, "and I wouldn't have much of a career." In The Tempest he plays the aging Prospero, commander of wind and sea, as a much younger magician. He grew a beard and added a few brown swatches nightly to his thick hair; he did not see himself artificially stooped, grey and mascaraed. Scotchtaped to his dressing-room mirror is a memo to himself about Prospero: "FANATIC. RECLUSE. FAITHFUL HOPER. SEEKER. LOVER."

From Current Biography, September, 1985:

It was Waterston's talent for investing Shakespeare's characters with a broad humanity, that made him such a valuable addition to the Festival's roster in the early 1970s. By portraying Prospero as a vigorous, middle-aged scholar rather than as a wizened magician, he added a poignant dimension to the outpouring of forgiveness and reconciliation that climaxes The Tempest and added weight and authority to Edward Berkeley's unorthodox studio production.