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Images From Teller's Magical Production of The Tempest

The classic romance is now running at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Prospero (Larry Yando) challenges his disobedient servant-monster Caliban (top: Manelich Minniefee, bottom: Zach Eisenstat).
Prospero (Larry Yando) challenges his disobedient servant-monster Caliban (top: Manelich Minniefee, bottom: Zach Eisenstat).
(© Liz Lauren)

Chicago Shakespeare Theater is now in performance of Shakespeare's classic romance story The Tempest, directed by Aaron Posner and Teller, of the magical duo Penn and Teller. Performances will run through November 8 in the Courtyard Theater.

Prospero (Larry Yando) reveals his past to his daughter Miranda (Eva Louise Balistreiri), as Ariel (Nate Dendy) and the Rough Magic ensemble (Ethan Deppe, Liz Filios, Jake Saleh, and Bethany Thomas) look on.
Prospero (Yando) reveals his past to his daughter Miranda (Eva Louise Balistreiri), as Ariel (Nate Dendy) and the Rough Magic ensemble (Ethan Deppe, Liz Filios, Jake Saleh, and Bethany Thomas) look on.
(© Liz Lauren)

The reimagined production features songs by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, with choreography by Matt Kent of the dance troupe Pilobolus. Larry Yando stars as Prospero, with Eva Louise Balistrieri as Miranda, Luigi Sottile as Ferdinand, Nate Dendy as Ariel, Manelich Minniefee and Zach Eisenstat as Caliban, Barbara Robertson as Gonzala, Adam Wesley Brown as Trinculo, Lawrence Grimm as Antonio, Michael Aaron Lindner as Sebastian, John Lister as Alonso, Ron E. Rains as Stephano, and Christopher Rose as Minion (as well as the production's assistant magic designer).

Ariel (at right, Nate Dendy) uses sleight-of-hand to recount for Prospero (Larry Yando) the tempest that shipwrecked the Neapolitans.
Ariel (at right, Dendy) uses sleight-of-hand to recount for Prospero (Yando) the tempest that shipwrecked the Neapolitans.
(© Liz Lauren)

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