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Felix de Boer, once at the pinnacle of his craft as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival, plans a revolutionary production of Shakespeare’s Tempest. The show is meant to restore his reputation and heal personal scars. After an unforeseen act of betrayal that upends his life, Felix is forced into exile, haunted by the death of his daughter Miranda and a burning desire for vengeance. Twelve years later, a prison theatre program offers him a chance to enact his revenge: he will guide inmate actors in staging the Tempest to confront the traitors who destroyed him—and perhaps, in the process, find redemption.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Margaret Atwood
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