
the tempest
O BRAVE NEW WORLD THAT HAS SUCH PEOPLE IN IT.
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.
“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.
Director's Note
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.
Show dates: 11th - 26th February 2023
cAST
Charlie Potter (she/her) | Maea Shepherd (she/her) - Ariel
Sean Farrell (he/him) | Rachel McLean (she/her) - Caliban
James Bayliss (he/him) | India Worsnop (she/her) - Prospero
Tori Kelland (she/her) | Anna Secker (she/her) - Miranda
Seb Kerebs (he/him) - Ferdinand
Phil Nordt (he/him) - Stephano
Susan Williams (they/them) - Gonzalo
Linda Dale (she/her) - Alonso
Tom Vassar (he/him) - Antonio
Susannah Donovan (she/her) - Sebastian
Anna Southerland (she/her) - Trinculo
Gus Lindsay (he/him) - Boatswain/Ensemble
Aroha Te Whata (she/her) - Master of the Ship/Ensemble
Hannah Grant (she/her) - Adrian/Ensemble
India Lindsay (she/her) - Ensemble
Manisha Singh (she/her) - Ensemble
Kirsty Simpson (she/her) - Franciso/Ensemble
CAST SCHEDULE
Cast X
India Worsnop as Prospero
Charlie Potter as Ariel
Sean Farrell as Caliban
Anna Secker as Miranda
Cast Y
James Bayliss as Prospero
Maea Shepherd as Ariel
Rachel McLean as Caliban
Tori Kelland as Miranda
Fri 10th - X
11th - Y
12th - X
Tues 14th - X
15th - Y
16th - X
17th - Y
18th - X
19th - Y
Tues 21st - Y
22nd - X
23rd - Y
24th - X
25th - Y
26th - TBC (weather reserved night)
ALL CAST WILL PERFORM IN ALL SHOWS.