THEATER
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JULY 14 & 15
12:00 - 5:00 PM

William Shakespeare:  The Tempest
Dysfunctional Collective
Nolan Park House 8B, Governors Island, Manhattan

Free
https://govisland.com/things-to-do/programs/2018-dysfunctional-collective

An immersive production of this greatest of plays, in which each storyline is performed separately, simultaneously in different rooms; you can stay in one room to see one story, follow a particular character from room/storyline to room/storyline to see the character's complete arc, or wander among rooms at random.  Finally, after about 40 minutes, all the viewers converge in Prospero's cell in the basement for a finale weaving all the threads together.  Frankly, I'm kind of fed up with this type of immersive theater:  I feel the underlying work gets butchered; it seems to me to be theater for people with too little sitzfleisch for real theater.  But if you're not over this stuff yet, this is definitely worth a try.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  There are plenty of food trucks and stands -- and a beer garden -- on Governors Island.  If you want a drink and maybe a snack after the ferry ride back to the bigger islands -- and at least as far as the drink goes, I can't imagine why you wouldn't -- there's The Long Island Bar near the Brooklyn landing.  The nearest excellent cocktail bar to the Manhattan landing, Dead Rabbit, had a fire and is closed till July 19; their Cuban-themed sister bar, BlackTail, is a little bit farther walk from the ferry landing -- but to tell you the truth, I like it even better than its celebrated world-famous sibling.