Name: The Tempest
Start: 2026-06-20T19:15:00
Location: Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Paul Jesson

Philip Childs

Fred Woodley Evans

Ashley Zhangazha

David Bark-Jones

Kenneth Branagh

Darrell Brockis

Halle Brown

Keir Charles

Stuart Edgar

Amber Sylvia Edwards

Tallulah Hamilton Barr

Guy Henry

Mark Meadows

Amara Okereke

Richard Eyre

Hugh Vanstone

Nicola T. Chang

Fotini Dimou

Bob Crowley

Royal Shakespeare Company

Desperate to escape their unhappy fates, young lovers Demetrius, Lysander, Helena and Hermia flee Athens for the moonlit woods. There – along with a band of amateur actors – they fall under the spell of mischievous fairy Puck and tumble into a dream world where illusion and reality are hilariously confused.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Helen Hunt and Kenneth Branagh play Ranyevskaya and Lopakhin, giants at war over a cherished estate. Madame Ranyevskaya returns from five years in Paris to find her house crumbling under the weight of debt and memory and her beloved cherry orchard under threat. Attempting to mend her extravagance, Lopakhin, the son of a serf, has mortgaged the estate and now wants to sell it off.

The Cherry Orchard

Swan Theatre

A long winter thaws in Harrenhal, and spring is promised. At a lavish banquet on the eve of a jousting tournament, lovers meet and revellers speculate about who will contend. But in the shadows, amid growing unease at the bloodthirsty actions of the realm’s merciless Mad King, dissenters from his inner circle anxiously advance a treasonous plot. Far away, the drums of battle sound.

Game Of Thrones: The Mad King

Royal Shakespeare Theatre

On a remote island, an exiled Duke prepares to perform his swansong, his great act of revenge. Kenneth Branagh takes the role of Prospero in Shakespeare’s final play, a meditation on art, power and freedom, directed by Richard Eyre.

The Tempest