The Tempest
Closing: February 01, 2025The Tempest - 2024 West End History , Info & More
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Catherine Street London
The Jamie Lloyd Company presents a joyous and captivating season of Shakespeare in London’s iconic Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”
The legendary Sigourney Weaver makes her West End debut as Prospero in this enchanting story of revenge and forgiveness
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Captioned: Saturday 25th January 14:30
Audio Described: Saturday 18th January 14:30
BSL: Saturday 11th January 14:30
The Tempest - 2024 - West End Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR The Tempest
Sigourney Weaver in the West End is a thrill but the show fails to spark
6 / 10
Lloyd’s production has an incantatory, dream-like quality. The cast wear headset mics and speak the verse with great clarity but little passion, their movements stylised and stiff: on the first of two press nights, Weaver lost her words a couple of times. An interesting thematic suggestion that Prospero’s island is a place of rebirth gets lost amid the sonorous intonation and tedious comic relief. For all its stark visual boldness, this is a curiously old-fashioned take.
Shakespeare’s language seems alien to Sigourney Weaver
6 / 10
The stark, sad fact, however, is that Weaver fails to weave the requisite magic. In terms of both her visual and auditory contribution, there’s something missing. She hasn’t done Shakespeare on stage since the mid-80s and has perhaps since become too wedded to the screen’s demands for minimalism, though Lloyd has plainly constructed the interpretation round maximal physical restraint. Her performance could possibly achieve some close-up marvels on camera but here, in contrast to his recent offerings (Tom Holland’s Romeo included), he forgoes that option.
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by Stephi Wild - January 30, 2025
Just Stop Oil interrupted a recent performance of The Tempest on the West End, starring Sigourney Weaver. Now, two people have been charged. Learn more here.
by Stephi Wild - January 28, 2025
Just Stop Oil interrupted a recent performance of The Tempest on the West End, starring Sigourney Weaver, stopping the performance briefly. Learn more and watch the video here!
by Aliya Al-Hassan - December 20, 2024
The Jamie Lloyd Company presents The Tempest, the first production in a season of Shakespeare in London’s iconic Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
by Alexander Cohen - December 20, 2024
As achingly monotone as it is aggressively monochrome.
by Stephi Wild - December 13, 2024
All new production photos have been released for The Jamie Lloyd Company’s production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver in her West End debut.
by Sarah OHara - December 16, 2024
The Jamie Lloyd Company’s production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, starring Sigourney Weaver, opened at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 7 December 2024.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 11, 2024
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest is running at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, starring Sigourney Weaver. Get a first look at Sigourney Weaver here!
The Tempest History
Other Productions of The Tempest
| 1910 | Broadway |
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| 1916 | Broadway |
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| 1945 | Broadway |
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| 1945 | Broadway |
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| 1974 | Off-Broadway |
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| 1981 | Off-Broadway |
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| 1989 | Off-Broadway |
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| 1991 | Off-Broadway |
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| 1995 | Off-Broadway |
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| 1995 | Broadway |
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| 2008 | Off-Broadway |
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| 2011 | West End |
Theatre Royal Haymarket Company Production West End |
| 2015 | Off-Broadway |
Shakespeare in the Park Production Off-Broadway |
| 2018 | West End |
Iris Theatre's production West End |
| 2019 | Off-Broadway |
The Public Theater Mobile Unit Production Off-Broadway |
| 2024 | West End |
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