Book Now For Simon Russell Beale In THE TEMPEST At The Barbican

The Royal Shakespeare Company's ground-breaking production of THE TEMPEST, starring Simon Russell Beale as Prospero, transfers to London for a limited seven-week run at the Barbican this summer. Book tickets now

On a distant island a man waits.

Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left him in isolation. But this is no ordinary man, and this no ordinary island. Prospero is a magician, able to control the very elements and bend nature to his will.

When a sail appears on the horizon, he reaches out across the ocean to the ship that carries the men who wronged him. Creating a vast magical storm he wrecks the ship and washes his enemies up on the shore. When they wake they find themselves lost on a fantastical island where nothing is as it seems.

Directed by the RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran, The Tempest features production design by Stephen Brimson Lewis, Digital Character Creation by The Imaginarium Studios, Video by Finn Ross, Lighting by Simon Spencer, Music by Paul Englishby Sound by Jeremy Dunn and Andrew Franks and Movement by Lucy Cullingford.

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