The Tempest
Shakespeare in Schools 2024
Writer
William Shakespeare
Director
Sophie Russell
Location
The Sainsbury Theatre
Dates
Thursday 17 October at 2:30pm
Friday 18 October at 6:45pm
The running time is approximately 80 minutes.
About the show
Prospero, the Duke Of Milan is double crossed by his brother and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a remote island whose only inhabitant is another exiled creature called Caliban. Prospero, with the help of the magical spirits on the island, becomes a powerful magician.
By chance, a yacht carrying his brother and the King of Naples and other rich lords is passing the island. Prospero takes his chance to take his revenge and find a way home for himself and his daughter. He creates a huge sea storm and causes the men to be shipwrecked on the island...
About Shakespeare in Schools
The Tempest is showing in LAMDA's Sainsbury Theatre as part of our 2024 Shakespeare in Schools tour, and is performed by our graduating MFA Professional Acting students.
Sophie graduated from the MA Directing Fiction course at the National Film and Television School in 2016. Her short films have been shown at various international film festivals and her latest, In It Together, about a couple in lockdown, was selected for Flickers’ Rhode Island, won ‘Best Short Drama’ at London Shorts festival and was nominated for ‘Best Editing’ at Underwire festival.
She has a degree in English from Oxford where she also directed plays. After university she worked in production for three years, including a stint in the BFI’s Development office and at Somesuch. She also writes and directs branded content.
She is represented by Catherine Goldstone at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates and mentored by director Jessica Hobbs (The Crown).
She is currently writing and developing her first feature which was longlisted for ‘Breakout’, the Netflix/Creative UK first feature scheme, in early development.
Contains themes of death, drowning, and mild threat.
Booking
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Creative Team
* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Director
Sophie Russell*
Voice Director
Alex Bingley*
Movement Director
Adi Gortler*
Music Director
Graeme du Fresne*
Producers
Rebecca Lyle*
Ella Murdoch*
Angel Cupidon*
Cast
Gonzalo
Cassie Clark
Ferdinand
Jamal Colvin
Ariel 4 / Iris
Brie Covington
Prospero 3
Samya De Meo
Miranda
Phoenix Edwards
Stephano
Samuel Ferrer
Caliban
Mazlum Gul
Sebastian
Dilip Kumar
Ariel 2
Alasdair Linn
Botswain
Mariama Mansary
Alonso
Joz McCaw
Ariel 3 / Juno
Grace Alice Murray
Prospero 1
Sadhbha Odufuwa-Bolger
Ariel 1 / Ceres
Gloria Olajide
Prospero 2
Nigel Sudarkasa
Trinculo
James Walsh
Antonio
Beko Wood
Production Team
* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Technical Stage Manager
Chloe ‘Alex’ Alexander
Production Manager
Emily Huxley
