Nola Rae & Lasse Åkerlund
HOME-MADE SHAKESPEARE
Nola Rae (London Mime Theatre) and Lasse Åkerlund (Teater Allena, Sweden) join forces to perform an evening of choice Shakespearian morsels. Both experienced storytellers, their art takes you on a roller coaster ride of the imagination.
Macbeth - A mad version of Shakespeare's murderous Scottish Play, set on a table and deivered by the contents of a lunchbox.
The Tragedy of Handlet - The famous version of Shakespeare's Hamlet for two gloved hands - acted in the style of a Victorian melodrama. Characters fight and expire dramatically - and water is spilt!
Romeo and Juliet - Where tragic lovers are found discarded in separate dustbins, and animated by two rival clowns who like to rummage.
Macbeth can be played convincingly by a tomato, Ophelia can be wrung out after drowning, before being buried in cat litter and Romeo can be - and is - played by a brown paper bag!
"...a very observant and beguilling mime with a version of Hamlet performed entirely with the hands that should get this year’s unusual Shakespeare award"
Miles Kington, The Times (Edinburgh Festival)
Recommended for all ages.
Tickets: £10/£8