The Literacy Through Theatre program, which sets the play within a prison environment is very interesting and compelling. There are a few different aspects to this book as a whole and all work together beautifully the use of a prison as a setting, the study and production of The Tempest by Felix and his cast, and Felix’s own inner turmoil and plot.
Hag-Seed is a delightful and page-turning read. He takes a teaching job with Literacy Through Theatre program at a local penitentiary and aims to bring his long ago cancelled Tempest to life and use it to exact revenge on those who orchestrated his downfall. As the years pass, Felix slowly forms a plan of vengeance. He makes a home for himself in an abandoned and isolated house, with the ghost of his deceased daughter, Miranda as his sole companion. With his career over and beloved production of The Tempest cancelled, he finds himself completely alone and becomes a recluse, intent on disappearing from everyone’s radar. In the latest release of Hogarth’s Shakespeare series, Margaret Atwood completely delivers with her take on The Tempest.įelix has been fired from his job as artistic director at the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival by a man he once considered an ally. Cobbling together this bare existence, living in a hovel, ignored …”
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