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There was a school play last week. It was called “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare. It was a pretty good play, although it may have been confusing for some. It wasn’t as confusing for me because I had studied the play in 2nd grade. But it was a bit hard to understand, with all the words “thee” and “thou”. But that’s Shakespeare for you. There may be pictures from the play on The Dalton Website.

The plays starts with a man named Prospero, who is a magician and the Duke of Milan, and his daughter, Miranda, on an island. They had gotten there when Prospero’s brother Antonio was pretending to be the Duke in place of Prospero, and put Prospero on a leaky canoe and set it out to sea. Antonio’s councilor, Gonzalo, feels mercy and lets Prospero bring with him his magic books, food, drinks, and Miranda, who is only three at the time. Then they set off.

Prospero begins to lose hope until he remembers his books. He immediately creates wind to send the boat to an island, one unknown to Antonio. There he finds a spirit trapped in a tree. He rescues the spirit and in return he makes the spirit his slave. Twelve years pass and a ship with Antonio and other royalty aboard come near the island. Prospero saw the ship with his powers and caused a storm to sink the ship. He made sure that his brother and everyone on the ship made it to shore, including the King’s son, Ferdinand, even though each one thought everyone else had perished.

In all this, Ferdinand falls in love with Miranda and they want to marry. But Prospero wants to test Ferdinand to be worthy of his daughter and he makes Ferdinand his temporary slave (He does have a lot of slaves, don’t you think?). No more talking about it, or you will never see the play. Do you think he made the test? (As usual, I always end my blog right when it is getting good, so read the play.)

My favorite character was named Trinculo. He is a jester and always is acting dumb.

I think this is enough for a blog post. Soon there will be another. But you have to wait, you say? Well think how boring it must have been on that island for twelve years. Now compare that to how long you have to wait. Still not satisfied? Oh well…