04711cam a2200337 4500 280856876 TxAuBib 20161215120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780735286603 0735286604 52e2235e-c8fb-4219-b5ce-b482202a41df OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2559141 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed [Bridges Audiobook]. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2016. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 225MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 225MB. HTML:Starred review from August 22, 2016 In The Tempest, Prospero is not just exiled king, magician, and father, he’s an impresario staging multiple shows: the storm that strands his enemies on the island; his pretended disdain for Ferdinand, whom he intends for his daughter, Miranda; the play within the play; and, some critics argue, the play itself. In this, the fourth Hogarth Shakespeare adaptation, Atwood underscores these elements by making her Prospero a prominent theater festival director. After being done out of his job by a scheming underling, Felix goes off-grid, teaching literacy and theater to prisoners and grieving a lost daughter. When he learns that the man who took his job, now a political bigwig, will attend the next production, he sees his chance: in this Tempest, it won’t just be Prospero who gets revenge. Former diva Felix is a sly and inventive director and teacher who listens to his cast’s input, and his efforts to shape the play and his plot make for compelling reading. If, at the end, things tie up a little too neatly, the same might be said of the original, and Atwood’s canny remix offers multiple pleasures: seeing the inmates’ takes on their characters, watching Felix make use of the limited resources the prison affords (legal and less so), and marveling at the ways she changes, updates, and parallels the play’s magic, grief, vengeance, and showmanship. 125,000-copy announced first printing.. Publisher's Weekly. HTML:William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge. After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall? Margaret Atwood's novel take on Shakespeare's play of enchantment, retribution, and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own. From the Hardcover edition.. Narrator R.H. Thomson would have made a fine Prospero in Shakespeare's TEMPEST: His voice has the ideal blend of toughness and tenderness to portray the vengeful but ultimately forgiving Duke of Milan. In Atwood's contemporary retelling of the Bard's final play, the veteran Canadian actor (but relative newcomer to audiobooks) is marvelous as all of the characters. Center stage is Felix, the exiled artistic director of a theater festival, who is exiled to teach drama at a prison. Felix has the inmates stage a production of THE TEMPEST, and Thomson brings the members of the cast to life with subtle vocal changes that capture all the novel's humor. He even salvages some awkward dialogue that would have fallen flat in the hands of a lesser narrator. D.B. � AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. Humor (Fiction.) Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-12-16 23:00:02. Thomson, R.H. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=52e2235e-c8fb-4219-b5ce-b482202a41df https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2559141-Hagseed.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2559141-Hagseed.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)