The Tempest

Chepstow

Friday 5 July 2019

7.30pm, Gates open 6.45pm, 7pm gates open 6.15pm

 

 

llyria play Shakespeare as close to the original in content and Elizabethan style and staging, performing the text uncut with 5 actors - it’s swift, it’s polished and it’s spoken beautifully - and including live music and song. Renowned for their clarity, quality and ingenuity this year they turn to The Tempest, Shakespeare's final play, lyrical thought-provoking and raucously funny. More than 400 years after it was written it still has the capacity to surprise! The magician Prospero is marooned on an island with his daughter Miranda. With the assistance of a powerful air spirit he keeps in servitude, he conjures up a storm to shipwreck his enemies on the shore of the island. Inexorably they are driven towards the centre of the island to answer to Prospero – until Prospero learns that in spite of everything Miranda has met and fallen in love with Ferdinand, the son of his enemy. Which is greater – his thirst for revenge or his aptitude for forgiveness?
Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes (including a 20 minute interval)

 

 

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