The Tempest 2022
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Get ready for a ‘laugh-a-minute riot of a beach party’ (The Reviews Hub) as Shakespeare’s tale of reckoning and redemption, The Tempest, is ‘brilliantly reimagined’ (Evening Standard) in this ★★★★ ‘super-fun’ (Time Out) production.
For powerful Prospero’s opening act of revenge, he raises a ferocious storm to shipwreck a crew of men – including his usurping brother – onto the remote island he now rules.
His unwitting cast is now in position and, with reluctant support from the island’s colonised inhabitants, Prospero’s designs of magical and emotional manipulation unfurl with life-changing force.
Shakespeare’s most elemental comedy is brought to life by our 2022 Globe Ensemble with direction from Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes (A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Twelfth Night, Globe).
‘O brave new world,
That has such people in’t!’
Act IV, scene 1
DETAILS
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£62 – £25 Seated
£5 Standing
This event is on-site in the Globe Theatre
Running time approximately 2 hours 30 minutes including interval
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Lead photography by Kate Bones
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Reviews
★★★★
‘Playful, raucous… never short of invention’
THE STAGE
★★★★
‘Super-fun crowd pleaser… A proper bit of Globe magic’
TIME OUT
★★★★
‘A rollicking comedy… brilliantly reimagined’
EVENING STANDARD
‘Gleefully eccentric, unequivocally comic’
THE GUARDIAN
★★★★
‘Unpretentious, hilarious, and full of heart’
BROADWAY WORLD
‘Vivid, cheerfully garish and never dull’
THE TIMES
★★★★
‘A laugh-a-minute riot of a beach party’
THE REVIEWS HUB
★★★★
‘Spine-tingling… the connection between audience and cast was electric’
LONDONTHEATRE1
★★★★
‘The Ensemble gel terrifically well’
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PHOTOS & VIDEOS
CAST & CREATIVES
Introducing The Tempest cast & creatives
Musical Director / Double Bass
Rio Kai
Percussion
Magnus Mehta
Guitar
Shirley Tetteh
Recorder
Olivia Petryszak
Cello
Midori Jaeger
Assistant Director
Naeem Hayat
Casting Director
Becky Paris CDG
Co-Director
Diane Page
Composer
Cassie Kinoshi
Costume Supervisor
Jackie Orton
Design Associate
Sandra Falase
Designer
Paul Wills
Director
Sean Holmes
Dramaturg
Zoë Svendsen
Fight Director
Maisie Carter
Globe Associate - Movement
Glynn MacDonald
Movement Director
Rachael Nanyonjo
Text Associate
Christine Schmidle
Voice Associate
Tess Dignan
The Globe Ensemble is inspired by the historic practices of Shakespeare’s company.
Michelle Terry, Artistic Director, introduced the first Globe Ensemble in 2018, inspired by the ways early modern companies created their work.
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ACCESS
We provide Access Resources for Audio Described and Relaxed performances, these will be added in time for the first of each of those access performances and will be available for all performances after that date