Hag-Seed

How is Shakespeare’s the Tempest presented in Hag-Seed?

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The production that is being screened is Shakespeare’s the Tempest, but the film is highly stylized, with drastic cuts to the script of Shakespeare’s play, and replacement lines instead of Shakespeare’s script. The replacement lines are closer to rap or spoken-word poetry, which gives the play a contemporary feel, as opposed to the sometimes-dated language of the original, but the Fletcher Correctional Players’ version preserves the terror and disorientation of the storm that begins the play.