Shakespeare Behind Bars

Who ever would have thought that some of the most significant productions of Shakespeare were occurring behind the walls of a minimum security prison on La Grange, Kentucky? Each year, the Shakespeare Behind Bars program at the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex mounts one of the Bard's plays; tragedies like Othello, Titus Andronicus and Hamlet that deal directly with mercy and redemption are always popular. The year this extraordinary documentary was shot inside Luckett, volunteer project director Curt Tofteland had decided on Shakespeare's final — and possibly greatest — play, The Tempest, a somewhat lighter work but one that's no less ...