First Encounters with Shakespeare The Tempest William Shakespeare Find out where The Tempest is touring to in 2025 On Tour Until 10 May 2025 Book Tickets The Other Place Stratford-upon-Avon Until 29 Mar 2025 Book Tickets Running time: To be confirmed Tour Venues Cast and creatives Production Photos Trailer Digital Programme More Less Tour Venues Cast and creatives Production Photos Trailer Content advisory First Encounters The Tempest Tour Venues Opening week First Encounters: The Tempest started tour on 6 February at Selly Park Girls School in Birmingham, playing to schools audiences. County Durham Fishburn Primary School 10 - 11 February Bishop Auckland Town Hall 12 February, 12.30pm and 6pm Lanchester E.P Primary School 13 February, 6pm Community Performance Middlesbrough Middlesbrough Town Hall 17 February, 1.30 and 7pm Newport Primary School 18 February Hartlepool St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School 19 - 20 February York York Theatre Royal 24 February 2pm and 7pm 25 February 11am and 2pm Selby High School 27 February Hull Hull Truck Theatre 11 March 1.30pm and 7pm 12 March 10.30am and 1.30pm Brough Primary School 13 - 14 March Bradford St Bede’s and St Joseph’s Catholic College 17 - 18 March The Studio, Bradford Theatres 19 March Belle Vue Girls' Academy 20 - 21 March Stratford-upon-Avon The Other Place 25 March 10.30am 26 March 1pm and 7pm 27 March 10.30am 28 March 1pm and 7pm 29 March 10.30am and 1pm Stoke-on-Trent Springhead Primary School Community Performance 31 March, 6pm To book: Please call The New Vic box office 01782 717962 Newcastle upon Tyne St. Michael's Roman Catholic Primary School 7 April Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School 8 April Northern Stage 9 April 2.30pm and 7pm 10 April 2.30pm and 7pm 11 April 2.30pm Northern Stage Corby The Core at Corby Cube 22 April 6pm 23 April 10.30am and 6pm 24 April 10.30am The Core at Corby Cube Kingswood Secondary Academy 25 April Blackpool The Grand Theatre | Blackpool 28 April 29 April The Grand Theatre Cumbria Dowdales School 30 April - 2 May Community Performance Thursday 1 May, 6.30pm BOOK NOW Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall with Barrowfull 3 May, 2pm Book Now Northampton Abington Vale Primary School 7 - 8 May Silhouette Youth Theatre 9 May 1pm and 6.30pm 10 May 11.30am and 3.30pm Silhouette Youth Theatre In This Section About the Play We announce First Encounters: The Tempest, the perfect touring introduction to Shakespeare for young people aged 7-13 and their families. Find out more Cast and creatives Meet the full cast and creative team of First Encounters: The Tempest, directed by Aaron Parsons See photos & biogs Production Photos See photos of our First Encounters: The Tempest touring production for young people from a performance for a school. See photos Trailer Watch the trailer for our touring production of First Encounters: The Tempest, coming to theatres and schools across the country watch trailer Digital Programme Find out more about First Encounters: The Tempest Find out more You may also like