Shakespeare’s The Tempest – June 22 to July 28
Shakespeare’s
final play, The Tempest is a striking fantasy/ romance rich with magic
and humor. The play opens on a ship in the middle of a storm. Fearing
the ship will split in two, the sailors and nobles aboard abandon ship
and make for a nearby island. When the storm subsides, the exiled Duke
Prospero and his daughter Miranda appear on the island they have
inhabited for 12 years. Using his rescued sprite, Ariel, and an enslaved
spirit, Calaban, Prospero leads the shipwrecked nobles thorough a
series of mishaps in an atttempt at revenge. Rated “G”
