The Tempest – Globe Theatre

review: The Tempest at the Globe

Rating: 5 out of 5. Tim Crouch’s brave new adaptation of The Tempest is a delightfully confusing production, sure to determine once and for all where the fourth wall is, and how long it can every really stand.  When it comes to audiences, Tim Crouch is a master manipulator. Throughout his career, with works like An Oak Tree, the question that Crouch asks the most through his work is surely; what are the lines between performer and spectator? And…

The Tempest - Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Tim Crouch The Tempest at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse arrives as a playful, intelligent production that finds considerable pleasure in theatrical mischief. Directed by experimental theatre maker, Tim Crouch, this is a light-footed reading of Shakespeare’s late romance, alert to the comedy, absurdity and artifice that sit alongside its darker questions [...] The post The Tempest – Sam Wanamaker Playhouse appe…

The Tempest – Globe Theatre

“I know this play very well. I don’t recognise this version…” So says Antonia at the end of this production — and that line pretty much sums up my experience too. This new production of The Tempest, produced by Shakespeare’s Globe and directed by Tim Crouch, takes a deliberately experimental, Brechtian-leaning approach to Shakespeare’s text. Performed in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the play is fragmented: lines are redistributed across characte…