The Tempest! “Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.”

Hi guys!

Recently in school, we watched a play called 'The Tempest', by a professional actors and actresses. This was a diffrent actors to when we watched Comedy of errors, and they were more professional people.

This was a story made by William Shakespear, the same person who wrote comedy of errors. I already wrote about the comedy of errors, but this time, I will be talking about The Tempest.

First of all, if you didn't know, Tempest means storm. So now I think you kind of get what the story is about. Yes, it partly was about a storm. A magician/duke, called Prospero and his daughter Miranda, was taken away into the sea with a rotten boat by the Prospero's brother, Atonito. But luckily, Prospero landed on a island and was saved. 

Years later, he saw Antonito's ship so he tried to sink the ship by making a Tempest with a help of his fairy, Ariel.

(I'll stop the story here because you have to watch or read the story yourself! It's good!)

In class, we first read a manga version. I was actually really suprised of the difference between the play and the manga. First of all, there was one character missing in the play which was a man named Gonzalo, and second of all, I thought it was good to read the manga first, because there was drawings, to make it easier to understand the story which also helped in the real play because when I remembered a phrase from the manga, I could tell what was happening.

I was also really suprised to the difference between the number of actors and the number of characters. There was 6 actors but there was 7 or 8 or more characters!

Even the story wasesn't a comedy, there was funny bits in it which I think helped, quite a lot. One reason was that we got to laugh a lot and second reason was that because when people were about to fall asleep, it woke them up(including me😳😉). 

Over all I think this is a story worth watching but maybe you might have to watch a diffrent actors do it sooooo...

(Sorry, I don't care)

Bye guys!

(P.S Watch it! It's reall good. Or at least read it!)