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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Great Lakes Theater
has earned a reputation for taking works from Shakespeare’s canon and infusing
them with a modern-day sensibility by transporting them to a different time and
place.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Playwright Mickle Maher has
done just that with “The Tempest,” but he has significantly upped the ante.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The result is the marvelously
inventive and hilarious “Spirits to Enforce,” receiving its regional premiere at
Cleveland Public Theatre.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The play picks up
where “The Tempest” ends.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Left
behind on the remote island where they once served Prospero, the rightful Duke
of Milan, Ariel the sprite and Caliban the monster have been waging a
centuries-long battle between good and evil.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Over time, Ariel and 11 other spirits
and faeries have moved to a major metropolis, assumed the role of Marvel
comic-esque superheroes with names that reflect their rather ridiculous powers –
such as “Memory Lass,” “The Snow Heavy Branch,” and “The Intoxicator” – and do
battle with Caliban, now called “Professor Cannibal.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Taking a break from
crime fighting, the heroes have decided to stage a production of “The Tempest.”
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As lights come up on “Spirits to
Enforce,” our heroes in their secret identities are holding a telethon to raise
funds for their show.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The entire
production finds them with phone in hand and, because none of them possess the
superpower of persuasion, they have their hearts on their sleeves.
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">What ensues is an
absolute delight, as “The Tempest’s” narrative and dialogue run parallel with
and frequently intersects this play.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In-jokes, like everything else in this fast-paced, brilliantly executed
production, run rampant.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Director Matthew
Wright perfectly orchestrates the constantly overlapping one-sided phone
conversations that fill this one-act play, and there is never an uneventful
moment. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On the contrary, it is
nearly impossible to keep pace with all that is happening on stage.<SPAN
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