Felix stays secluded, but he answers an ad for someone to teach literacy in a local prison. Tony covets Felix position, and objects to the new version, and he plots to bring down Felix and take his job.įelix bitterly accepts the loss of his job, and he plots revenge on Tony.
He is planning a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Tempest. Tastes change as time passes.įelix is a renowned theater director at the Makeshiweg Theater Festival. The latest addition to this series is Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood. I have read their version of Taming of the Shrew as Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler, which I thoroughly enjoyed. In 2010, the press was revived by Random House under Crown Printing, with the stated purpose of issuing modern adaptations. Hogarth, founded in 1917 by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, went out of business in 1946.
However, lately, I have enjoyed some of the products of the Hogarth Shakespeare Press. Another noted example is Hamlet played with no background, no props and all the actors dressed in black with black turtlenecks.
One particularly egregious example, which infuriated me, was a Mozart opera set in a bowling alley. I have never been a fan of adaptations of classic plays and operas reset into modern times. I’m Jim McKeown, welcome to Likely Stories, a weekly review of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and biographies. Fun adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, set in a maximum security prison.
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