Directed by Nicole Davall
Written by William Shakespeare and directed by Nicole Davall
Nicole has a unique way of presenting her shows which became apparent with Romeo and Juliet earlier in 2019, being a sell-out for nearly every performance and this looks like being similar.
The cast for The Tempest 2020 is
Prospero - Stephen Andrews
Ariel - Amy Burton-Smith
Miranda - Mia Kenny
Ferdinand - Sam Chamberlain
Alonso - Kenneth Swan
Conzalo - Roger Tarrant
Sebastian - Howie Watkins
Antonia - Jaz Weyer Brown
Caliban - Stephen Day
Stephano - Gordon Mellor
Trinculo - Nathan Swain-Sachs
The seating has been arranged in a way to enhance the performance but this will result in a reduced capacity so early biking is advised. There will be an extra performance on Monday 17th February which is in addition to the matinee on Saturday 22nd at 2:30pm.
The compilers of Shakespeare’s First Folio considered The Tempest to be Shakespeare’s greatest masterpiece. Although it is thought to be Shakespeare’s final solo work, it appears first. It is also the only play in which Shakespeare observed the classical artistic conceptions of the unity of time and place. Whereas his other plays tend to span large periods of time and jump from place to place, the action of The Tempest occurs in real time over the course of a single afternoon in the confines of an isolated island. The Ice Factory’s studio theatre is the perfect venue for capturing this intensely focused atmosphere. But while the action of the play is tightly constricted, it is not dissimilar to Hamlet’s infinity ‘bounded in a nutshell’, as the themes of the play are nothing if not expansive.
Rehearsal photos by Jon Bond (Memoir Multimedia) - click to enlarge
