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The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
Door Shakespeare
Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin
July - August 2015
Picture
Mark Corkins and Grayson Heyl. Photo by Bruce Ambuel.
Picture
Steven Lee Johnson, Matt Deitchman, Jacob Schrimpf, Heather Chrisler, and Mack Folkert. Photo by Bruce Ambuel.
REVIEWS
"one of the best shows in the history of the company."
- Gary Jones, Peninsula Pulse
Click here for the full Peninsula Pulse review.

"for another summer Leda Hoffman returns to Door Shakespeare to direct The Tempest with a sharp eye towards uncovering each character's human qualities, whether actually human or mystical, so her choices clarify the production's humor, poetry and story and a keen humanity shines from within each cast member."
"Door Shakespeare delivers an effortless, enchanting, and magical Tempest, timelessly powerful in the telling."
- Peggy Sue Dunigan, Broadway World
Click here for the full Broadway World review.

"Does such a preternatural ability to alter events corrupt one's soul? If one were able to not only shape history but also know its outcome in advance, would there still be any relish in living? And will what one creates or mars ultimately even matter, after one is dead? Such questions haunt every artist and this play, reminding us that one long-standing way to read "The Tempest" is as Shakespeare's retrospective meditation on his own career as playwright."
- Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Click here for the full Journal Sentinel review.


Picture
Grayson Heyl and Andrew Carlyle. Photo by Bruce Ambuel.
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James Pickering, Carrie Hitchcock, Joe Boersma, and Carolyn Hoerdemann. Photo by Bruce Ambuel.
CAST:
Prospero - Mark Corkins*
Alonso - Mark Moede
Sebastia - Carrie Hitchcock*
Antonia - Carolyn Hoerdemann
Gonzalo - James Pickering*
Ferdinand - Andrew Carlyle
Miranda - Grayson Heyl
Caliban - Jonathan Wainwright*
Trinculo - Chris Peltier
Stephano - Joe Boersma
Ariel - Steven Lee Johnson*
Spirits - Matt Deitchman, Heather Chrisler, Mack Folkert, Jacob Scrimpf

*appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
PRODUCTION TEAM: 
Director - Leda Hoffmann
Set Designer - Aaron Kopec
Lighting Designer - Todd Mion
Costume Designer - Bridgid Danahy
Composer / Music Director - Matt Deitchman
Movement Director - Molly Rhode
Fight Choreographer - Ryan Schabach
Stage Manager - Melissa Wanke*
Executive Director - Amy Ludwigsen
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  • Home
  • Directing
    • New Plays
    • Contemporary Plays >
      • Indecent (The Contemporary)
      • Mr Burns, a Post-Electric Play (The Contemporary)
      • The Cat in the Hat (Northbrook Theatre)
      • Born Yesterday (Texas Shakespeare Festival)
      • The Amish Project (Jedlicka Performing Arts Center)
      • A Christmas Carol (Milwaukee Rep)
      • Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (Luminous Theatre)
      • A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Milwaukee Chamber Theater)
      • Censored on Final Approach (Renaissance Theatreworks)
      • The Amish Project (Milwaukee Rep)
      • A Second Sam (Luminous Theatre)
      • Phaedra's Love (World Stage Company)
      • The Chairs (Alchemist Theater)
      • Birth Witches (Riverside Theatre)
      • The Penelopiad (Luminous Theatre)
    • Musicals >
      • 9 to 5, the Musical (The Contemporary)
      • Head Over Heels (The Contemporary)
      • Black Pearl Sings (Milwaukee Rep)
      • Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Max and Louie)
      • Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Milwaukee Rep)
      • Jesus Christ Superstar (Greendale Theater)
    • Classical Plays >
      • As You Like It (Door Shakespeare)
      • The Comedy of Errors (Door Shakespeare 2018)
      • Hamlet (Illinois Shakespeare Festival)
      • Romeo and Juliet (Door Shakespeare)
      • The Tempest (Door Shakespeare)
      • The Comedy of Errors (Door Shakespeare 2014)
      • King Lear (Alchemist Theater)
    • Academic Productions >
      • Blood Wedding (Ohio State)
      • The Trojan Women (University of Miami)
      • Student Body (Marquette University)
    • Short Plays >
      • Alone World
      • L.A. 8AM
      • The Latest News from the Primordial Ooze
      • Hamlet in Hiding
      • Airborne
      • Every Show You've Ever Seen
      • The Ultimate Battle for Total Control of the Entire Universe
      • Parachute Silk
      • Night
      • Express Yourself
    • Assistant Directing >
      • Glass Menagerie (dir. Aaron Posner)
      • Death of a Salesman (dir. Mark Clements)
      • The 39 Steps (dir. J.R. Sullivan)
      • A Christmas Carol (dir. Joseph Hanreddy)
      • My Name is Asher Lev (dir. Aaron Posner)
      • Breakdancing Shakespeare: Macbeth (dir. Nina Pinchin)
      • Beckett's Last One Acts (dir. Ellen Mease)
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