Alas! Poor Yorick.
Schedule
Tue Oct 22 2024 at 07:30 pm
Location
The Malthouse Theatre | Canterbury, EN
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Tuesday 22 October, 7.30pmMalthouse Theatre
Tickets £18, Students £12
If the Two Ronnies were cast as the Gravediggers in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, re-written by Samuel Beckett you might have something like Ridiculusmus’s Alas! Poor Yorick. Mixing the mundane with the magical; moments of banal idiocy are interspersed with ones of cinematic elegance as Jon Haynes and David Woods pull out every trick in their theatrical playbook to create a fresh take on Shakespeare’s much-loved clowns, re-enacting all the preceding acts of the original and meticulously staging the famous graveyard scene in all its 420-year-old glory.
Flipping the original Shakespearean tragedy into an existential clown piece, Ridiculusmus cast aside chaos and mistaken murders to unearth a beautiful and oddly moving meditation on work, faith and existence, with the prevaricating protagonist offered in a refreshingly contemporary light.
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Where is it happening?
The Malthouse Theatre, Malthouse Road,Canterbury, Kent, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
