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If you were in Nashville in the summer of 1999, you might’ve caught Shakespeare in the Park’s lively production of The Tempest, directed by Denice Hicks, who propelled an apprentice cast of fairies throughout the Centennial Park band shell to charming effect. Nashville Shakespeare Festival revisits the Bard’s island fantasy in its third winter production at Belmont. Brian Russell, Prospero a decade ago, gets another crack at the play’s lead character, a sorcerer with an axe to grind and the power to exact his revenge, but whose ultimate wisdom leads him to forgiveness. Jon Royal appears as the man-monster Caliban, and Hicks herself will take on the role of the ethereal sprite Ariel. This staging, under company education director Claire Syler, promises to be very different than its forebear, given the well-appointed, more conventional environment of Troutt Theater (and presuming the venue’s occasional acoustical shortcomings are accounted for).
Thursdays-Sundays. Starts: Jan. 14. Continues through Jan. 31, 2010
Thursdays-Sundays. Starts: Jan. 14. Continues through Jan. 31, 2010
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