The Tempest

Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this perfidious brother and his confederates on the island, his long-contemplated revenge at last seems within reach.

Inspired by reports of the first English colonies in the West Indies and imbued with a spirit of magic and the supernatural, THE TEMPESTis Shakespeare’s late, great masterpiece of forgiveness, generosity and enlightenment.

Jeremy Herrin’s previous work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes 2011’s much loved Much Ado About Nothing.

This production employs Renaissance costumes and staging.