What Country Friends Is This?
Supported by BP
Prospero is usurped from his position as Duke of Milan and cast away with his daughter to a remote island. Twelve years later, and intent on revenge, he raises a magical tempest that shipwrecks his enemies on his shores.
What begins as a search for retribution develops into a journey of acceptance and compassion in Shakespeare's final play.
Directed by David Farr, The Tempest plays in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, as part of What Country Friends Is This? together with Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors.
This epic trilogy of Shakespeare's shipwreck plays, exploring love, loss and reunion, is performed by one company of actors.
We offer a full schools programme to support this production - visit our Education pages for details of workshops and free education resources.