A re-telling of The Tempest in modern form, with quite a clever conceit as its base: After years of professional exile, a de-throned theatre director secretly gets to produce one more play in favourable conditions with his rascally former colleagues and usurpers as a captive audience. It is, of course, The Tempest.

I kept wondering what to expect. Would he go full Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood on them? Would his own plans be crossed by other players? In the end, the central performance reminded me of the final episode of The Prisoner: weird. And after the end, there are long in-world analyses of the play and its characters, and a summary of the original play. I was surprised by this pacing, but didn't mind it; I'm interested in literary theory anyway.

A fun read.