O Brave New World, That Has Such People in It
I went last night to see Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” put on by the Royal Shakespeare Company, starring Patrick Stewart as Prospero. It was my first time seeing Shakespeare, although it was different than I’d imagined. I thought it was going to be more “period” with lots of old English and old costumes, but it was modernized a bit.
Another difference was instead of taking place on a jungle island like in the original play (or at least how I’ve always seen it portrayed when the plays been done on tv), they changed the location to a more arctic setting.
I’ll be honest, the main reason I went was to see Patrick Stewart, but I really enjoyed myself and after a few minutes I forgot it was Patrick Stewart up there for the most part and became absorbed into the story.