I went to the Wednesday morning performance of the Tempest. My favorite part of the play was the acting ability of the actors. They performed in an exaggerated manner and it made the play easier to understand. Even though they were exaggerated it never became corny, which is something I feel often with exaggerated acting. The play was a smaller production than I expected, but that wasn’t a bad thing. It added a charm to the play and it highlighted the actor’s acting ability and the director’s creativity. My least favorite part was the play itself. It being a 400 year old Shakespeare play made it really hard to keep up with the story. The dialogue is very hard to understand and the actor’s performances made it easier but still not easy to understand what was going on. In the playwrite, Prospero was a man while in the play she was a woman. It changed the dynamic with the daughter and I liked it more by making Prospero more relatable. Again, following along with the story was difficult due to the source material, but from what I could understand Prospero’s relationship with her daughter felt very real. It’s difficult finding connection in older stories due to relationship dynamics changing throughout time, but Prospero’s relationship with her daughter was so well played that it shocked me it was different in the original.
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