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...Tempest, part of a repertory offering that will alternate all summer with Oscar Wilde's Salome, is still in previews at the Public Theater on Soldiers Field Road in Allston. Remember the Public is an outdoor theater, so this could be a very pleasant way to spend a hot summer's night...
...version is director Michael Kahn's decision to relocate the play in 1866. Personally I'd prefer a Rinascimento Romeo to a Risorgimento one. But first love, youthful rambunctiousness and the generation gap (a favorite theme with Shakespeare, as witness Lear, Cymbeline, Othello, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest among others) are universal, and Kahn's choice is perfectly defensible. Shakespeare specified a Verona summer. In 1866, Verona, the episcopal see of the Venetia region abutting Austria, was a hotbed of turmoil, a pawn in the seven-week Austro-Prussian War, during which it was finally ceded by Austria...
...Tempest, part of a repertory offering that will alternate all summer with Oscar Wilde's Salome, is still in previews at the Publick Theater on Soldiers Field Road in Allston. Remember the Public is an outdoor theater, so this could be a very pleasant way to spend a hot summer's night. Shows tonight through Sunday start at 8, admission costs...
...Tempest will be alternating at the Publick Theater with Salome all summer long, beginning with a preview performance of the Shakespeare romance on July 4. The Publick Theater, 1175 Soldiers Field Road in Allston, is an outdoor arena and a pleasant place to see a good show if the weather and cast are cooperative. Bring your own seat and wait for some other night if the weather is threatening. Tickets are $2 cheap...
...would appear, that Shakespeare's universal mirror reflects every social being. In other authors this capacity might properly have been termed vacillation. With Shakespeare, it is universality. In that most universal play The Tempest, a magician recites his-and his author's-wistful valedictory...