Combining the movie Alien with Shakespeare’s The Tempest, is already kind of a confusing idea. Notice, I didn’t say original idea. Going even further to actually combine Alien with a sequel to The Tempest, which isn’t an actual play is even more confusing. Notice, I didn’t say original. Why, oh why do people think we need yet another Shakespeare slash fill in the blank show? We don’t. In fact, I’m willing to bet that someone will do a show next year called, Re-imagined Shakespeare Show…The Musical. I know it’s not fair, but I went into this show prepared to be bored and annoyed. I wasn’t annoyed. In fact, I was pretty impressed with the interesting blocking. The cast did some really cool tricks to portray Ariel, the “Alien.” I was a little bit bored. Mostly because, as I said, this isn’t something we haven’t seen already. The production team did a fine job melding the two stories. But at this point in the game, if you are going to take on a project like this, you better do a brilliant job. Especially when you note in the program how much money you got in donations to produce this show. If this whole Shakespeare mash-up thing is here to stay, I’m going to need to be blown…away.
While my away wasn’t blown, I did think there were a couple of delightful performers; Katie Willer, Ben Tallen and Jane Froiland.
I give this show Three Gaye Golden Stars and One Leg in the Air.
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