Peter Josephson’s A Tempest Prayer concludes SoloStage season
Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH New Hampshire Theatre Project’s new play development program, SoloStage concludes March 19 through 21. Peter Josephson’s A Tempest Prayer is an adaptation of Shakespeare s The Tempest, restaged for audiences that experienced the multitude of social and political pressures of the last year. A Tempest Prayer runs for online and limited in-person audiences and is made possible through generous sponsorship from JCM Management, Hub Entertainment Research, and Piscataqua Savings Bank.
Themes from the original text which depict the wielding of power and attempts at forgiveness will be in conversation with the events of 2020 as Josephson examines what it means to be a white male in America today. To escape confinement on his island, Prospero must forgive the brother who betrayed him, free the ones he used as slaves, and acknowledge his own darkness and weakness. Told through text, m
New Hampshire Theatre Project Presents A TEMPEST PRAYER
A Tempest Prayer runs from March 19 through 21 for online and limited in-person audiences.by BWW News Desk
New Hampshire Theatre Project s new play development program, SoloStage will continue this March with Peter Josephson s A Tempest Prayer, a one-man retelling of Shakespeare s The Tempest. Josephson skillfully depicts the multitude of characters in what is thought to be Shakespeare s last play written alone. A Tempest Prayer holds true to the tragic-comedy of the source material while the story of a father s reckoning with his power and his past is brought into the present day.