This Last Tempest: SCRATCH

Uninvited Guests
Age recommendation: 14+

This Last Tempest is a sequel to The Tempest and begins where Shakespeare left off. Caliban and Ariel are left all alone on the enchanted island, watching Prospero’s ship sail over the horizon and out of view.

Using the magic of the words Prospero taught them, his former servants, the “savage” and the “airy spirit” are free to begin again. They sing and perform wild tempests. As the storms rage endlessly around them they conjure-up their own brave new world, with new rules for a new society - where spirits and monsters are people and inanimate things are alive.

Part theatre, part music gig, This Last Tempest draws on Uninvited Guests’ collaborative approach to devised theatre with a focus on evocative sound. Working with composer and musician Neil Johnson, they fill this strange but somehow familiar island with magic and the sweet airs and loud noise of Ariel and Caliban's songs.

‘You can’t help but fall in love with it’ ★★★★★ The Guardian on Love Letters Straight From Your Heart

‘This is a marvelous piece of theatre that blowtorches away Britishness and forces you to feel’ Time Out on Love Letters Straight From Your Heart

Funded by Arts Council England. Commissioned by Brewery Arts Centre, The Royal Shakespeare Company and supported by the Tobacco Factory and Battersea Arts Centre.