The Tempest review, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse – There’s not a Shakespearean rule this production won’t break

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The Globe’s new production is a radical reimagining of William Shakespeare’s late classic Shakespeare's The Tempest famously takes place on a remote island, far from civilisation. But here, storied experimental theatremaker Tim Crouch ( An Oak Tree , Adler & Gibb ) has dragged his setting so many leagues away from traditional Shakespearean territory that it's basically in the Bermuda Triangle. It's unsettling, strange and bursting with a new liveness. It feels like Crouch has taken it as a