Shobana Jeyasingh Dance present an inventive, sideways look at Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

Shakespeare’s brilliant last play, The Tempest, written as Europe was taking its first step towards colonialism, is a tale about power – exercised weakly, usurped violently, and regained through strategy and showmanship.

We Caliban is a dance production which sees this story through the eyes of Caliban, a minor character in the play whose life is changed forever when the power games of distant lands and unknown peoples are played out in his own remote island, making him a “monstrous” servant to a new master and his young daughter.

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Shobana Jeyasingh Dance

Will Duke visual projections
Thierry Pécou composer
Floriaan Ganzevoort lighting designer
Mayou Trikerioti set and costume designer
Uzma Hameed dramaturg

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance is one of the most dynamic and distinctive forces in UK dance. The Company’s vivid and powerful productions live long in the memory, applauded by audiences and critics alike across the globe.

The production is accompanied by specially commissioned music for virtual orchestra and processed sounds by Thierry Pécou.