hobnob theatre company seeks to engage and enrich the community with a dynamic array of theater as an art form by producing: popular and forgotten classic plays, modern plays of exceptional merit, extraordinary musicals, original works, and theater for young audiences.
"By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure. and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do. To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for I’ll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the Earth. And deeper than did ever plummet sound.. I’ll drown my book" The Tempist is my favorite.
Excellent, one of my favorite poems! It's hard to convert Shakespeare into music as perfect as his writing, and I don't know if this quite does it (by those high standards :) ) , but it is beautiful music. Wish I could have seen the play!
the slight grotesquerie of the performance is also excellent, and unexpected, but I think the material the wings are made from lets the scene down quite a lot. Everything else on stage looks great, but the way the light falls on the solid material of the wings looks very amateur- it's not that expensive to acquire or to make angel's wings with real feathers (I've seen them on sale for $20 or so) and real feathers look excellent when spread out against a blank background.
It's a great effort. But I would have refrained from shifting my weight from foot to foot in the epilogue, it's dissipates the power of the speech and it distracts the viewer. I also think it's worth considering taking one's time over that speech, it's very elegiac- this rendition feels a little rushed. But having a younger Prospero works well !
