I've always said that you can't really enjoy 400-year old Renaissance drama unless it's done stark naked in the middle of New York's Central Park--which is what happened this week at Summit Rock, where an all-female cast performed Shakespeare's The Tempest completely in the nude.
How does the theater company explain it?
"This Tempest [...] will be dramatized not only through performance and staging but also through inventive and integral use of costuming, with the harrowed, conspiring shipwreck victims initially forced to navigate the play’s island setting in constricting outfits suggestive of European aristocracy."
"[I]nventive and integral use of costuming."
Or, you know, as naked as the day you were born.
If this sounds reminiscent of that time you walked through Central Park naked while yelling out quotes from Shakespeare--it's exactly like that, minus the various felony charges and people fleeing from you while firing off pepper spray.
But just like that.
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