July
2004
Preview: The Tempest |
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are such stuff as dreams are made on.' |
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Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' is this year's Theatre Royal national
touring production. |
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The
Tempest
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| Where: |
Theatre
Royal, Bury St Edmunds |
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Thursday
9th to Saturday 18th September at 7.30pm, matinees on Wed &
Sat at 2pm |
| Tickets: |
£8.00 - £16.50
Box Office: 01284 769505 email: booking@theatreroyal.org
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Off
the Adriatic coast of Italy lies an enchanted island of contrasts,
an island which represents many different things to many different
people.
To
the wronged Prospero, it is a place where illusion and reality blend
seamlessly, one into the other.
For the virginal Miranda, his daughter, it is the only world she
has even known.
When a mighty storm shipwrecks King Alonso, Duke Antonio and their
party on its shores, they find themselves tempted by spirits, teased
by sprites and tormented by monsters - all by the hand of Prospero,
the man they marooned and betrayed 12 years before.
A time
for revenge? Or a time to forgive?
Directed by Colin Blumenau and designed by the creative team that
produced The Misanthrope and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, this new production
combines music and magic, poetry and prose, reality and illusion
to create a world where anything can happen and nothing is quite
what it seems.
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