The Bridge Project - The Tempest
Presented by SRT 2 - 10 April 2010 Esplanade Theatre In March 2009, Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT), in collaboration with Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, presented The Bridge Project - Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale starring Ethan Hawke and Rebecca Hall. Directed by Tony and Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road, Cabaret), the production received rave reviews from both the press and public. “There was never a moment that I was anything other than enthralled” –The Wall Street Journal “Solid acting, beautiful stage design and great directing bring the Bard’s tale to vivid life." – SPH, The Straits Times
“…one of the foremost theatre directors in the world, brilliant at reinventing and transforming the most challenging texts into blockbuster theatre.” —The Telegraph (UK)
The Bridge Project is a partnership between Sam Mendes, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the Old Vic in London run by Kevin Spacey (Academy Award winner for The Usual Suspects and American Beauty).
The Bridge Project has been the most prestigious theatrical event in the world this year, and SRT is proud to be one of the five co-commissioning producing partners for the world tour of this trans-Atlantic venture. SRT will present the Singapore leg in collaboration with the Esplanade -Theatres on the Bay. About The Bridge Project Year 2 – The Tempest
In April 2010, Year two of The Bridge Project features another stellar transatlantic lineup in a work by William Shakespeare: The Tempest. In this celebrated classic, widely considered to be Shakespeare’s final play, Mendes and company explore outcasts, power, and magical lands. Featured actors include: Michelle Beck (Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Twelfth Night, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Cyrano de Bergerac Christian Camargo (Broadway’s All My Sons, the film The Hurt Locker) Tony Award-winner Stephen Dillane, (Broadway’s The Real Thing, HBO’s John Adams) Obie Award-winner Ron Cephas Jones (Broadway’s Gem of the Ocean, Donmar’s Jesus Hopped the A-Train) Juliet Rylance (Theatre for a New Audience’s Othello, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre’s The Winter’s Tale) Thomas Sadoski (Broadway’s reasons to be pretty and Reckless) 
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