Backstage with The Tempest

It's 1 pm Sunday afternoon and most of the cast for The Tempest is crowded inside the make-up room. Those unfamiliar with the actors would presume they'd be staring into mirrors, silently reciting lines and rehearsing cues. Instead the cast is spending their time joking, laughing and singing along to a radio blaring throughout the room. The noise and energy radiating throughout is so overwhelming that it is difficult to imagine that in less than an hour, these individuals will transform themselves into characters created almost 400 years before. »