Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The once and future artistic directors of the Pittsburgh Public Theater decided to measure themselves against the best. So for the last play Ted Pappas directed, he chose Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” and for the first play Marya Sea Kaminski now directs here, it’s “The Tempest.”
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Meddling with Shakespeare is playing with fire, an old stale fire, so it is usually perfectly alright to do so as not to alienate a next generation of theatre patrons. The problem is usually how far can the frame story, cuts, and additions be taken before it's unrecognizable as the original or beyond the point of the story. Having never read the Tempest, but understanding the gist of it it sounds like a wonderful frame story, though I never really identify with anything as sterilized as a hospital is seems to fit more with Alan Cumming as Macbeth where the insanity needs to be played up more. The all female cast sounds interesting to me. I have no idea how I feel about a 60’s girl group in the show, it seems very random and too anachronistic for me but whatever. I would love if Teller did the same magic centered version of the Tempest like he did with Macbeth.
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