Word: tempests
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...same sort of problem torments an otherwise solid production of The Tempest, an Adams-Quincy effort currently running in the Quincy dining hall. Directors Rik Englehardt, Cynthia Raymond and Laura Shiels, while no strangers to the world of Shakespeare (witness Engelhardt's and Shiels' similar production of A Midsummer Night's Dream last spring), tried very hard, perhaps a bit too hard, to make this production original. Their innovations, which include a cast with three Prosperos, three Calibans and three Mirandas (one to act, one to dance, one to mime), are interesting but unwieldy. The cast seems unable to overcome...
...Tempest concerns the passengers and crew of a Neapolitan ship wrecked on a seemingly deserted island, and the deposed duke who brought them there by sorcery. Reality is suffused with magic, and by the end of the play almost all of the characters have trouble distinguishing reality from illusion. This splendid confusion provides a perfect setting for avant-garde theater, in countless scenes where bizarre happenings become the norm. Thus the multiplication of leads is justifiable, even if it does not really work. The triumvirate of directors makes an honest stab at bringing elements of dance and mime into...
...Rosmersholm--8:00 Indian--8:00 Lost Cookies--Eliot Dining Hall at 8 Hedda Gabler--Winthrop JCR at 8 p.m. A Thousand Clowns--Leverett Old Library at 8 p.m. Comelot--Belmont Dramatic Club at 8 p.m. Nosh--Laurie Theater, Brandies, at 8:30 p.m. The Tempest--8:15 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead--8:00 Scenes from The Comedy of Errors--Loeb...
...Hedda Gabler--Winthrop JCR at 8 A Thousand Clowns--Leverett Old Library at 8 and 11:15 Scenes from the Comedy of Errors--Loeb Ex at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Camelot--Belmont Dramatic Club at 8 p.m. Noah--Laurie Theater, Brandies, at 8:30 p.m. The Tempest--8:15 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead...
...uninhabited, enchanted desert isle, The Tempest is often seen as the Englishman's version of America or as Shakespeare's testament to the belief that, starting with nothing, good people can create a new world. By diversifying the roles within the play and adding lots of mime and dance, directors Laura Shiels and Rick Engelhart hope to construct in the Adams/Quincy production of Tempest more than just another alternative to society's mistakes. On this island, they hope, a grand Christmas-time spectacle will occur. Performances begin tonight and run through Saturday, and also next weekend, in the Quincy dining...