When King Alonso of Naples and his entourage sail home for Italy after attending his daughter Claribel's wedding in Tunis, Africa, they encounter a violent tempest.

Everyone jumps overboard and are washed ashore on a strange island inhabited by the magician Prospero who has deliberately conjured up the storm.

Who is this Prospero and why does he conjure the tempest?

What is the power that he has on the spirits inhabiting the island, especially the half human, half savage Caliban?

A delightful romantic drama with undertones of betrayal and retribution, domination and subjugation, The Tempest remains to this day one of the more popular plays written by Shakespeare.

The themes of freedom, friendship, repentance and forgiveness are beautifully treated, and by the end of the play, the tempest - both real and figurative - has calmed the most vengeful of avengers and washed away the sins of the most evil of wrongdoers.