We have been recovering these past weeks -- first from the show, and then from the vicious and highly contagious combination of a cold and pinkeye. The cold and pinkeye we will decline to share with you, but here, have a show: The Tempest, by William Shakespeare.
The video quality is not what we could have wished, but after the first scene it evens out. If you watch nothing else, catch the pageant of the goddesses, starting at 1:47:00, and appreciate the perfect marriage of Sibelius and fog machine.
For those watching for Darwins, the oldest, Eleanor, plays Trinculo the clown, and Caliban is the boyfriend of the second Miss Darwin. I cast them against each other because a) they are both fantastic individually, and b) I knew they'd commit to stupid shenanigans under a gabardine. My third daughter's boyfriend appears as Francisco, the youngest of the Neapolitans. Date a Darwin, get pulled into community theater.
