Shakespeare for White Trash -06- The Tempest

Canadian author Crad Kilodney created the “Shakespeare For White Trash” series to make Shakespeare understandable and enjoyable to the many millions of people living now who have little or no knowledge of Shakespeare, and to prove to them that the stories contained in Shakespeare's plays are superb. The plots and characters are unchanged, but everything else has been radically restyled. Read Crad's versions and you will become a Shakespeare fan.  Enjoy!
Kilodney originally posted his versions on Wordpress.com from 2010 to shortly before his death in 2014. It was the first time that all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays had been rewritten by one author and published in one place. They are re-packaged here to increase the likelyhood of people, like you, finding them.
Mr. Kilodney hoped acting companies would be encouraged to stage these plays more often.
Gist of the story: Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan and a self-taught magician, has been living on
an island with his daughter, Miranda, ever since they were driven out of Milan twelve years before.
Prospero was usurped by his ambitious brother, Antonio, who conspired with Alonso, the King of
Naples. Now a ship bearing Antonio, Alonso, and Alonso’s brother, Sebastian, is sailing near the
island. Using his magic and his spirit servant, Ariel, Prospero creates a tempest that forces his enemies
to the island. Then he torments them to punish them for their crimes but spares their lives so that they
might repent and make amends. Prospero’s daughter, Miranda, and Alonso’s son, Ferdinand, fall in
love. Prospero’s final act of magic is to make fair weather so that everyone can return safely to
Naples. (It is widely believed that The Tempest was the inspiration for the 1956 sci-fi classic
Forbidden Planet, but Anne Francis, who starred in the movie, denied any connection in an interview
on TVOntario. Nevertheless, you will see some similarities between the play and the movie.)