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By Rob Sherwood
Rappahannock News
Contributing Writer
I would like to join a chorus of voices who have expressed the highest praise for last weekend’s performances of “The
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Tempest” by the RCHS drama department. The acting, the staging, and the technical support were superb which enabled the audiences both nights to savor the unparalleled wordplay and the exquisite texture of this — the Bard’s final and arguably maturest work.
The imaginative staging of the comedy’s first scene captivates us from the start. It’s of a storm at sea that forces the wicked usurpers Antonio and Alonzo to shipwreck on an enchanted tropical island. All at once the stage is awash with flickering lights, storm sounds, and actors in Elizabethan dress staggering from side to side as a line of black-clad “goddesses” wails in warning.
On this mysterious isle Antonio and Alonzo and their cohorts will face up to their past misdeeds thanks to the magic of the island’s resident sorcerer — Prospero.
Andrew Inglis performs the role of the wise and virtuous hero Prospero with a dig
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