Coming through the pandemic storm with The Tempest

A trash island forms the background for Oak Park Festival Theatre's outdoor staging of The Tempest. Choosing The Tempest as their first show to break the enforced theatrical silence of the past 16 months makes a lot of sense for Oak Park Festival Theatre. Shakespeare's late romance celebrates the "rough magic" of finding redemption, love, and freedom after storms both literal and metaphorical have knocked the characters on their asses.…