'THE TEMPEST' BY TARA ARTS 25 September - 14 October 2007 Plays Tuesday to Sundays Tara Studio 356 Garratt Lane London, SW18 4ES Box Office 020 8333 4457 Tickets £12 and £8 concessions www.tara-arts.com

In its 30th anniversary year Tara bring its unique approach and style to Shakespeare's most dramatic and atmospheric of plays 'The Tempest'. An act of terror, a treacherous brother, a tormented slave, an innocent daughter … Shakespeare's powerful last play is a miraculous story of confinement and freedom. Exiled on a "desolate isle", Prospero manipulates loved ones, servants and enemies alike as he obsessively plots revenge to return home.

Over the years Tara has proved itself a uniquely seductive British theatre company. Its blend of East and West continues to inspire an alluring vision of modern Britain through the production, promotion and development of cross-cultural theatre.

Jatinder Verma and Claudia Mayer have developed a distinctive cross-cultural theatre style, drawing on Asian dramaturgical practices to reinvent European texts. This has resulted in Jatinder becoming the first director from among Britain's migrant communities to be invited to stage a play at the National Theatre. Tara has also staged an outstanding trilogy of plays - Journey to the West (2002) - an epic of modern migration, followed by national tours of The Merchant of Venice (2004), An Enemy of the People (2005) and The Marriage of Figaro (2006).