The Tempest
19 July – 15 August 2019
Osney Mead, Oxford
You’re Shipwrecked. Watch. Listen. Trust no one. Survive.
In the summer of 2019 our audience boarded Creation Cruises, bound for Milan, before encountering a storm and being shipwrecked on Osney Mead. Following the hugely popular game theatre format we developed back in 2016 for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, we met Prospero and Ariel on board a double decker bus, discovered Trinculo floating down stream in a dinghy and battled Sycorax’s zombie minions in a meat market.
Certainly not your traditional summer Shakespeare, this performance took a large dose of the spirit of adventure and let the characters of The Tempest, and our audiences, loose in the real world.
You can watch a post show talk with Terri Paddock and the show’s cast on our blog.
“A real rabbit warren of ingenuity, creativity and lateral thinking, wrapped up in a massive Shakespearean hug… in terms of inventive theatre, Creation cannot be beaten.” Katherine MacAlister, oxinabox.
“Prospero’s Mediterranean island has never been so much fun.” Esther Lafferty, oxmag.
“Part escape room, part scavenger hunt, part promenade, part urban exploration, where audience, extras and crew twitch between surveillance dystopias, coffee shop dramas and royal intrigues, alliances shifting and sympathies twisting.” Daily Info.
