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But by the end of the play, he is able to forgive them. A powerful magician, exiled on an island with his daughter, conjures a storm that causes his enemies to shipwreck on the island so he can take his revenge. Thought to be Shakespeare’s last play, The Tempest is about revenge, redemption, and a bit of magic. It’s mid-October and the Carleton Players production is scheduled to open on October 27, just days before the 400th anniversary of what is believed to be the play’s first performance at Blackfriars Theatre in London. But that was in the 1960s when it was the Northfield High School Carleton rented its auditorium for some student performances.īerkeley has returned to Carleton this fall to direct The Tempest-the first production in the new Weitz Center for Creativity theater, which occupies the space that was once the high school gymnasium. The design echoed the Weitz Center’s theme of adaptive reuse by using found objects-a sailboat, tires, crates, bed frames, netting, and, most dramatically, a 45-foot telephone pole extending out over the audience-to evoke the play’s setting.Įdward Berkeley ’66 has staged plays before in the building at 320 Third Street East in Northfield, including the musicals Fiorello! and She Loves Me. “Ed was here for almost every class, so students could see what it’s like to work for a director,” says Stephen Mohring, associate professor of art, whose “Theater 233” class designed and built most of the set for The Tempest.