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The Tempest review " Tim Crouch's high-concept treatment roughs up the magic by Arifa Akbar

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London Some spells are cast by this show, in which the director stars as Prospero, but it wearingly replays the same tricks The Tempest seems like the perfect Shakespeare drama for an experimentalist. It is all about artifice, after all, and interrogates the construction of art as illusion through Prospero's rough magic. So its pairing with experimental writer-actor-director Tim Crouch seems …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM on January 30, 2026

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