Review: The Power of Art to Calm the Storm in Theater 2020’s "The Tempest"
The Tempest Written by William Shakespeare Adapted by David Fuller Directed by Judith Jarosz Presented by Theater 2020 at The Great Room at ART NY (138 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn), June 14-28, 2024, and at Pier One – Brooklyn Bridge Park, June 29-30, 2024* *Note: Pier One dates cancelled due to COVID and weather Center front: David Fuller as Prospero. From left: David Arthur Bachrach, Eileen Glenn, Corey Barron, Kodee Martin, Emma Noelani, Linda Elizabeth, Robert Dyckman, Caryn Hartglass, Lynn Marie Macy, Michael Gnat. Photo by John Hoffman Theater 2020’s delightful 75-minute adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest serves as a timely and powerful reminder that art has the potential not only to mirror reality but even more poignantly to reimagine a better future. Certainly, the future The Tempest proffers is not utopian; the colonized Caliban remains “a thing of darkness” under the control of an only somewhat humbled Prospero. However, the reconciliation of its other ch...