The Tempest follows multiple groups of people wandering the same island. The current production running at the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival doesn’t exactly transcend to the point of excellence, but it’s an extremely solid mounting of a difficult and delightful play. When not handled well, it can all be a bit of a jumble, but at its best, it is a fantastically unrelenting whirlwind. The show alternates quickly between romance, political subterfuge, physical comedy, family drama, and mystical sorcery. The Tempest has always been one of my personal favorite works of Shakespeare’s because of just how many elements there are at play between all the quickly rotating plot lines. Amara Webb and Phillip Shinn in The Tempest (Brian Collins, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival)
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