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Kilkenny Arts Festival 10 - 20 August 2023
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Live Performance / Outdoors
Shakespeare

The Tempest

Rough Magic and Kilkenny Arts Festival

Theatre
The Tempest
  1. 3 - 6, 8 - 13 August 2022
  2. 8pm
  3. Kilkenny Castle Parklands
  4. €28, €25, €20 Preview, €80 Family Ticket
  5. 2hrs approx. including interval
  6. Please note: this is an outdoor performance.

    Please dress for the weather. No umbrellas allowed.

  7. Ticket bundle available
  8. Wheelchair accessible
  1. 3 - 6, 8 - 13 August 2022
  2. 8pm
  3. Kilkenny Castle Parklands
  4. €28, €25, €20 Preview, €80 Family Ticket
  5. 2hrs approx. including interval
  6. Please note: this is an outdoor performance.

    Please dress for the weather. No umbrellas allowed.

  7. Ticket bundle available
  8. Wheelchair accessible
“a breathless ‘Dream’ makes for a triumph”
Sunday Independent (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
“spellbinding and compelling… tremendous”
Sunday Business Post (Solar Bones)

From Rough Magic and Kilkenny Arts Festival, the award-winning team that brought you A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing, comes a new take on Shakespeare’s classic, filled with magic, mischief, music and romance.

Shakespeare’s lyrical revenge fantasy comes to the Castle.

Eleanor Methven, one of Ireland’s most celebrated actresses, takes on the iconic role of Prospero, the deposed ruler turned elemental sorcerer.

The fury of the storm she conjures hurls her enemies onto her shores - but it also brings a sad young prince, to the delighted curiosity of her daughter Miranda. Is their attraction a trick of fate - or the spectacle and sorcery of the enchanted island?

A dark comedy filled with magic, music, mischief and romance, told beneath the Kilkenny summer skies.

Shakespeare Family Ticket

Save up to €26 with our Shakespeare Family Ticket! Two adults and two children or one adult and three children to see The Tempest for €80.

In order to avail of any of the bundles, just add the desired tickets to your basket and the discount will automatically apply.

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