Shakespeare ReFASHIONed is a series of events at Selfridges which mark the 400th anniversary of The Bard’s death, with the focal point being a performance of Much Ado. The collaboration is an intriguing idea, in many ways Selfridges – frequent winner of the accolade ‘The Best Department Store […]
Hamlet Part II is one of a trilogy of parodies by Perry Pontac called ‘Codpieces’. On the evidence of this evening’s offering, I will be eagerly seeking out the other two parts. The opening funereal music is abruptly interrupted, as in a ‘problem’ play, by the arrival of […]
I have never been to a production of Shakespeare where the wonderful words of the great Bard himself are so entirely irrelevant as in Shit-Faced Shakespeare. Lights go down, plastic wine caps are unscrewed (classy theatre goers that we are) and we eagerly await a play which has […]
Titus isn’t renowned as Shakespeare’s greatest play, although it is his goriest. With fourteen deaths, a live burial and some rape and cannibalism thrown in for good measure it’s more than likely to unsettle the audience. The gory story follows the Roman general, Titus Andronicus, who has returned […]
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