HAMLET

ye Pantomime

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wacky this way comes. Yes, it’s ‘Hamlet ye Pantomime’…the show they said couldn’t be done, shouldn’t be done… and most likely won’t be done! 

Bill the Bard’s biggie has been given a good going-over by this son of York. That it should come to this! Spoofing Shakespeare? O, what men dare do!

Yes, I know I have mentioned certain texts that should be untouchable as it were… a recent film version of ‘Peter Pan’ has been panned… so is this an about turn then? No, it’s about putting the lid on it. One can but live in hope? All men, I hope, live so.

Hamlet is just your basic boy-meets-ghost, with bodkins, fardels, slings and arrows added for good measure, but this version is a silly, slapstick saga of Scandinavian skulduggery… a quirky, perky pastiche of probably the most puzzling play on the planet. It’s very much an ensemble show with something for everybody… even the audience.

Here’s more matter for a May morning… or an evening any time throughout the year… this script could be performed as part of a regular drama season, even by societies who don’t present an annual pantomime. It does you good to let your hair down once in a while… providing you can still see where you’re going of course!

See – www.gwizzpromotions.co.uk – for details. I double dare you!

Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t... and I ain't talkin' Stanislavski!