Drama.Theatre

The Tempest

Event Date: 
30/09/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre

The Tempest by William Shakespeare Untold Theatre and Yellowbelly Theatre

Once powerful in his own country - then overthrown by his brother Antonio - Prospero finds himself stranded on ‘The Island’, a Migrant Camp in 2020. When a passing ship of politicians and dignitaries - amongst them Antonio - ventures close to The Island, Prospero seizes an opportunity for justice by summoning a fearsome tempest. Set against a backdrop of mass migration and political corruption, fragments of Verbatim Journalism and striking digital projections punctuate Shakespeare’s original scenes. There...