The Tempest

AUDIO DESCRIBED PERFORMANCE ON THE 19TH FEBRUARY

For our 2023 production and to celebrate the 40th year of Summer Shakespeare Wellington, we will be presenting The Tempest, directed by Megan Evans, at the Dell in the Botanic Gardens.
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“What does enough look like?”

Summer Shakespeare Wellington is proud to present a new production for 2023, The Tempest, directed by Megan Evans.
This hopeful and inspiring eco-ethical production will explore the nuanced and complex human (and more-than-human) relationships on this beautiful planet.
Come with us, and explore what it means to be human.
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Director's Note
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Enough? What does ‘enough’ look, sound, feel, taste, smell like? In The Tempest, Shakespeare’s Prospero is an occupier, an enslaver, a revenge-seeker. Yet as he achieves many of his goals, he starts to see some of the limits on his powers. By the end of the play, he voluntarily sets down his ‘supernatural’ powers, accepts his own flawed humanity as ‘enough’ and opens space for healing to begin.

We need to change everything.

To change everything, we need everyone. We need climate scientists and sociologists. But we also need actors and artists to help imagine new ways –wider, fairer, co-creative ways of preparing together for the tempests to come.

- Please bring along sunscreen and bug repellent.
- Please bring picnics and refreshments
- You are welcome to bring blankets and chairs

We do not have a wet weather venue. We're still clarifying our wet weather cancellation procedures, but we will be in touch on the day of performances (if rainy) to confirm cancellations.
If you do not hear from us, it means the performance will still be going ahead.

Run time
Act One: 1 hour, 10 minutes
15 minute interval
Act Two: 40 minutes

Thanks to our partners:
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington City Council, Grouse Lighting, Capital E, part of Experience Wellington, and Circa Theatre