W ritten around 1610, The Tempest is one of William Shakespeare’s last plays. It centers on an old magician and former king who has been exiled to a remote island. When his brother (and usurper ...

How much do you know about Shakespeare’s play The Tempest? This section takes you step by step through the play, helping you to identify key plot points. You’ve all heard of those trips to an ...

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Ticket prices for Sigourney Weaver's West End debut in Shakespeare's The Tempest have been slashed after a string of bad reviews apparently put theatregoers off. The cost of watching the play at ...

This gargantuan production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest – the first non musical ... By which I mean: bagging the UK stage debut of movie icon Sigourney Weaver feels like a coup on paper ...

In 1957, the great John Gielgud starred as Prospero in The Tempest at Theatre Royal Drury ... Here, he offers an otherworldly take on Shakespeare’s stormy play – but this time he runs aground.

She sits alone at the front of the stage gazing out into the vast auditorium as the tempest she ... Ripley in the Alien movies, Weaver rises to the challenge of Shakespeare’s most autobiographic ...

Striking, austere visuals and star casting can’t bring heart to this cold and incoherent take on Shakespeare’s story ... to musicals” – this sombre Tempest is alienating and coldly aloof.

to a play so tantalisingly mercurial as The Tempest. Even the strongest directors can struggle to tame its structural unevenness and wrangle its discordant subplots. Neither can I fathom what ...