In its seventh year, The Shakespeare Behind Bars program challenges prisoners at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex to take on the bard by staging a jailhouse producton of Shakespeare's last play, "The Tempest." Rehearsing over several months with director Curt Tofteland, the inmates encounter a range of formidable setbacks, from deciphering Elizabethan language to losing a cast member to a stint in "the hole." The themes of the play are not unappreciated by the troupe of convicts. Their Tempest provides a stirring look into the nature of guilt and redemption and the lives they envelope.

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