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

TICKETS
£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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Part of Summer 2022

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’

THE TELEGRAPH

 

 

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

Thou mak'st me merry | Production trailer (2022)

A blurred out background of some people wearing party hats; text reads 'The Tempest'

Our revels now are ended | Ferdy Roberts as Prospero

Ferdy Roberts. He is wearing a grey robe and pointing a finger to his chest while looking up.

A world of exploration | In rehearsal (2022)

Two people lie onstage, while two people mime stabbing gestures behind them. In between a woman wearing two pink party hats peeks out of a blue container

Anti-Racist Shakespeare: The Tempest

A red, black and white illustration showing a fingerprint pattern background

CAST & CREATIVES

Introducing The Tempest cast & creatives

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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