“By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune/Now, my dear lady, hath mine enemies/Brought to this shore...” - The Tempest

 Summer Festival THE TEMPEST 
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
directed by Sharon Ott
June 8-July 23

Exiled by her own brother to a remote island and left to die, Prospera - the once loved Duchess of Milan and now an all-powerful sorcereress - conjures a great tempest to wash ashore a ship of her enemies.  With the power of magic, Prospera manipulates the survivors of the wreckage to weave a story of revenge, retribution, and reconciliation that is Shakespeare's final play and beloved romance.  Nationally acclaimed director Sharon Ott makes her Georgia Shakespeare debut, with Associate Artists Carolyn Cook as Prospera and Chris Kayser as the fairy Ariel.

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"What’s so dazzling about this Tempest is the way Ott marries crude ogres with delicate fairies, fluid choreography with elemental design, superb clowning with abject degradation. From the opening scene, in which the ocean-going voyagers fairly undulate in a vertiginous onslaught of wind and waves, to the final moments, when Prospera relinquishes her desire for vengeance and sorcery, the story is elegantly told and lovely to look at." - Wendell Brock, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Pictured above: Carolyn Cook as Prospera with Cordell Cole, Brad Sherrill and Joe Knezevich in The Tempest. (Bill DeLoach)
 
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