RSC's THE TEMPEST Storms Into U.S. Cinemas Today

By: Mar. 01, 2017
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Beginning today, March 1, 2017, the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed production of Shakespeare's The Tempest will play in select movie houses across North America. The production, which opened to rave reviews at the RSC's home in Stratford-upon-Avon, was filmed for "Live from Stratford-upon-Avon," the RSC program that screens the world's greatest classical theatre company from Shakespeare's home town around the world through a continued partnership with Trafalgar Releasing (formerly Picturehouse Entertainment).

This production of Shakespeare's late play, in collaboration with Intel and in association with Andy Serkis's Imaginarium Studios has been in development since September 2015, and aims to break new boundaries in theatre-making with the very first live motion capture performance appearing in a major classical stage production.

Following screenings in the UK on January 11, the production has been seen by more than 60,000 people in over 500 cinemas across the UK, generating more than £830,000 (over $1million) in box office receipts to date and on March 30 over 500 schools around the UK will see it in their classrooms.

From June 30 - August 18, 2017, The Tempest will play at the Barbican Theatre in London.

For more information and tickets: https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-tempest/in-cinemas

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.

In a unique partnership with Intel, today's most advanced technology is used in a bold reimagining of Shakespeare's magical play, creating an unforgettable theatrical experience.


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