The Tempest

Adam Caniparoli – Run Crew

Adam is very excited to be working on his first show with Bag&Baggage. He graduated from Whitman College with a B.A. in theatre. He has a burning passion for all aspects of the theatre – but spent the majority of his time working as a carpenter, stage manager, lighting designer and actor. He wishes to thank his mother, father and brother for all the love and support throughout the years.

Christopher Curry – Run Crew

A native of Hillsboro, Chris is excited to be working as part of the crew at Bag&Baggage. He was recently master carpenter of PCC’s production of David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicagoand has worked as a carpenter and a painter for Sarah Ruhl’sDead Man’s Cell Phone and Woyzeck, respectively. Currently a junior, Chris plans on attending PSU in the Fall and majoring in Theater Arts with a focus in design and production.

Addie Underwood – Production Intern

Addie is thrilled to be interning with Bag&Baggage for The Tempest or The Enchanted Isle. She has worked with the Oregon State University Theatre during her undergraduate and graduate studies. Formally trained in the visual arts since the age of 11, Addie’s introduction to theatre was as a scenic artist. Addie has worked most frequently designing and applying makeup for theatre productions, the most challenging being a near sixty member production of Pirates of Penzance. She has filled many run crew positions on shows such as Angels in America, Mikado,A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Street Theatre, Spin, All My Sons, and The Foreigner. She has been seen on stage inShakespeare’s Journey, Spin, All My Sons, and Snapshot. She has also directed with the OSU One act festival twice. Addie is pursuing a Masters of Arts Interdisciplinary Studies Degree at Oregon State emphasizing theatre.

Playwright

John Dryden and William Davenant

William Davenant (1606–1668) was an English poet and playwright and was one of the rare figures of the English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras. Davenant’s godfather was William Shakespeare who stayed frequently at the Crown Tavern in Oxford, which was owned and operated by Davenant’s parents. There are, in fact, rumors that Davenant may have been Shakespeare’s biological son! Following the death of Ben Jonson (another powerful theatrical figure of the time), Davenant was named Poet Laureate in 1638 although much of his life was spent in various forms of legal trouble (including a stint in the Tower of London in 1651 for treason, where he wrote one of his most famous works, Gondibert). Davenant was a prolific writer and had a particular interest in adapting the works of Shakespeare, including The Law Against Lovers (an adaptation of Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing), an opera based on Macbeth, The Rivals(based on The Two Noble Kinsman) and The Tempest, or the Enchanted Isle (written with John Dryden based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest in 1667).

John Dryden (1631–1700) was one of the most influential poets of his age and he essentially dominated the literary life of Restoration-era England to such a degree that the period came to be known as The Age of Dryden. Born the eldest of fourteen children, Dryden was the son of prominent land owners and descendants of Sir Erasmus Dryden. Dryden was also the second cousin of Jonathan Swift. After the Restoration, Dryden quickly established himself as the leading poet and literary critic of his age. After the lifting of the ban on theatre during the Puritan reign, Dryden turned his attention to writing plays and, during the 1660s and 1670s, theatrical writing was to be his main source of income and established him as the earliest writer of Restoration-era comedy. It is interesting to note that Dryden established the “heroic couplet” as the standard form of English poetry and was the first person to suggest that English sentences not end with a preposition because it violated the rules of Latin grammar. Dryden wrote more than 40 plays during his life.