The Shakespeare Project used The Tempest as a basis for a devised performance which combined projection and new staging technologies to create a contemporary performance with a twist. Working as a collaborative ensemble, the company of third year undergraduates explored a wide range of stimuli, colliding Shakespeare’s writing with that of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, visions of utopia and notions of the island state. Shakespeare’s original sources for the play including Jacobean accounts of maritime exploits and discoveries of the ‘New World’ were interspersed with contemporary material ranging from The Shipping Forecast to a vibrant array of scenographic images and interactive projection technologies which had been developed directly from Sita Popat and Scott Palmer’s research project  Projecting Performance  http://www.leeds.ac.uk/paci/projectingperformance/home.html
This research was in itself a collaboration between the School of Performance and Cultural Industries and KMA Creative Technology  http://www.kma.co.uk/ who worked with The Shakespeare Project  company to create many of the memorable moments in the performance.