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Photo: Pau Ros
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest is the departure point for STORM, an original devised work with new writing.

Charged with lightning and magic, a stellar multi-disciplinary cast weave together original live music, singing, theatre, acrobatics and movement to capture the wild battle between humanity and nature. Travel into the not-so-distant future, where audiences are immersed in a world of fantasy, spectacle and haunting beauty – balancing the ageless work of Shakespeare with the climatic dilemmas that face our global family today.

In a remote island bunker sheltered from the chaos of the outside world, exiled geo-­engineer Prospero furiously works to control the elements and pave the way for a new world of calm and sustainable prosperity. Poised on the brink of her own coming­-of-­age, his daughter Miranda uncovers an earthshaking truth: the Storm lives within us all.


Directed by Anna-Helena McLean
Devised by the company
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Original Core ACT Ensemble included George Bellamy, Emily Jane Grant, Chris-Gerard Heyward, Ezra Faroque Khan and Anirudh Nair

Rosanna Lowe undertook the first draft of the script in collaboration with and with input from the devising team

Other contributors who were formative to the devising process 
include 
Alana Bloom, Ragnhild Freng Dale, Alexandra Kazazou, Daniel Kearns and Sean Palmer

Collaborating ensembles included Walkabout Theater Company Chicago, foolsFURY San Francisco and Sean Palmer's Gre Badanie Experimental Choir Poland

Funded with support from Arts Council England, the MacArthur Foundation and Culture.PL

We continue to reach out to  producing partners in festivals, educational institutions and immersive sites (i.e warehouse, abandoned building, underground vault, bunker spaces, versatile theatres) in a locality where the company can be resident for between 10 days and a month offering open workshops and participatory engagement with the international company. Contact us for more details.
Photo: Pau Ros
"Anna-Helena McLean is a world class theatre creator/director. She has an uncanny ability to synthesize her music and physical actor training into full out, glorious, lush production. She is a provocateur…….. a provocateur who is also able to deliver a rich, nuanced, meaningful story for a live audience. That is rare". Founding Artistic Director Walkabout Theater, Chicago

"There were elements of generosity, intelligence and freedom in your performance which I’ve found missing in many very high-profile productions and it made me want to see more of your work in the future". Publisher, Routledge Theatre & Performance Studies

“sophisticated yet feral... ensemble work at its very best” Kevin Greene New City Stage

“a good piece to engage your attention and critical thinking... fascinating” 
Kerstin Broockmann Chicago Standard

“truly remarkable – sometimes even triggering the entire audience to uniformly gasp and hold their breath... Committed story-telling... sheer entertainment” Bobby Arnold Buzz on Stage
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REHEARSAL PROCESS VIDEOS

Watch full-length video of STORM performed with Walkabout Theatre in Chicago 2015 here
Request password to view full-length video of STORM showcase in partnership with The Vaults London, 2014 here
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