William Shakespeare's The Tempest
To be performed at venues in London and Oxford June to August 2010.
A magical storm. A long plotted revenge. A whirlwind romance. Journeys of tragedy, comedy and music come full circle in Shakespeare's late great masterpiece.
Mick Gordon directs The Tempest to mark the 400th anniversary of the play and the founding of Wadham College, of which Mick is an alumnus and is the Oxford home of the OSC. This in-the-round production will celebrate this remarkable last work with a musical score written by Nick Lloyd Webber.
Mick is a celebrated director whose many accolades include being Artistic Director of the famous Gate Theatre, London; Associate Director under Trevor Nunn at the National Theatre where he master minded the Transformations season and founder of On-Theatre whose productions over the last 10 years have wowed critics and audiences alike. On Religion, devised with A C Grayling was recently produced as a radio play for BBC Radio 4 and the forthcoming Pressure Drop joins forces with the formidable talent of Billy Bragg and will be performed at the Wellcome Trust in May.
Nick Lloyd Webber joins the OSC for a third season. His beautiful and rousing compositions for Twelfth Night in 2008 were a major contribution to the production's excellent critical and audience reception and a Time Out Critics’ Choice.
Noël Coward’s Private Lives
To be performed in rep with The Tempest throughout July and August at Wadham College, Oxford.
The perfect setting for the perfect honeymoon. Or at least it would be if your ex-partner wasn't also there on honeymoon only for you both to discover that you are still in love with each other!
And so begins one of the most brilliant, razor sharp and popular comedies ever written. OSC co-founder Nicholas Green directs, with musical arrangements by Nick Lloyd-Webber and James Reid.
"It may be set in the middle of the last century, but the writing hasn’t dated, it remains gloriously funny and that’s why I wanted to direct it – I like gags – that may not be the most subtle answer I could give, but I can’t think of a better reason." - Nick Green 2010