Simon Ryninks

Starring Michael Adams, Bill Bingham, Nicholas Bishop, Benedict Eedle, Richard Emerson, Ruth Gibson, Tamar Karabetyan, Richard Lakos, Sophie Steer, Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke, Ben Whybrow, Joseph Wilde

Directed & Adapted by Simon Ryninks
Co-Directed & Adapted by Felix Mortimer
Written by William Shakespeare
Produced by Daisy Cooper and Joshua Narwas
© RETZ

O Brave New World was a site-specific production which told Shakespeare's The Tempest episodically over six months with six mini-productions in six different immersive installations, all within a single shop. Each month audiences would come back for the next chapter to discover the shop’s interior had completely transformed. By day the shop was a functioning coffee shop where further details of the story could be discovered.

O Brave New World was commissioned for Create Festival with support from Hackney Council and Arts Council England. 

PRESS

"The sense not just of being in Prospero's private space but of going right into his head is acute."  - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

"Brilliantly correlates the uncanny dreamlike mysticism at the heart of Shakespeare’s play with a modern alienation." - iD Magazine