“You don’t need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”- Bob Dylan Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a comedy in the sense that it has a happy ending. However, we only get to that happy ending by overlooking, accepting and/or not questioning the cruelty in Prospero’s governance of the island. I have always been […]
Archives for October 22, 2019
Review: Kid Prince and Pablo, a Hip Hop Mark Twain update
Mark Twain’s 1881 novel, The Prince and the Pauper, receives an engaging update (with a “digital, Hip Hop-infused twist”) at Kennedy Center’s Family Theater with the world premiere of the Kennedy Center-commissioned Kid Prince and Pablo, running now through November 3rd. The Twain original took readers back in time, imagining a 16th Century situation in […]
Review: Stormy Weather. IN Series reimagines Tempest by way of Billie Holiday
She devils. Film-noir temptresses. Crazy women in attics à la “Jane Eyre.” In art of all sorts, women who speak up, sashay to a different drummer or who just challenge male authority often get branded by such less-than-flattering terms. And they often suffer violent or at least unpleasant ends. That’s what happens to Sycorax, the […]
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