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The Tempest review

“Compelling reimagining”
Joshua Griffin, Naomi Wirthner, Tim Crouch and Sophie Steer in The Tempest at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, London. Photo: Marc Brenner
Joshua Griffin, Naomi Wirthner, Tim Crouch and Sophie Steer in The Tempest at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, London. Photo: Marc Brenner
Experimental theatremaker Tim Crouch explores intriguing, unexpected angles in this melancholy, meta reframing of Shakespeare’s fantasy

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