The Tempest

Director: Simon Usher;
Designer: Lee Newby.

The Tempest is the world in two hours. The celestial, the domestic and the epic combine in a single time and place. Here Shakespeare isolates a number of individual characters who represent all humanity. It is his final examination of his own kind. The mirror is unsparing.

This is the Print Room’s first-ever Shakespeare, and there will be a special emphasis on inspiring younger audiences with a production that will give strength and intelligibility to the play’s numerous competing voices in a dramatically exciting, fluid and fast-moving two hours.

Combining spectacle, naturalism and some of Shakespeare’s greatest and most accessible poetry, The Tempest is a masterpiece for all ages and for all time.

In the year that commemorates the 400th anniversary of his death, it feels particularly appropriate that they should make their Shakespeare debut with the great playwright’s valedictory investigation of existence.