WHAT if WORKS

WIW’s 2017 partnership with GableStage and Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” reduced the play to fifty-minutes, each of the seven actors serving as a moderator to link absent scenes from their character’s perspective. Through hilarious and oftentimes sober action, the adaptation examined the issues of climate change and consumerism as the bedraggled, shipwrecked party attempted to survive on Prospero’s “magical” island without the aid of social media and technology. As was hoped, they and their audiences found magic of a more compelling kind.

Written by: William Shakespeare

Adapted & Directed by: Phillip M. Church