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Green Eggs and Hamlet
by Giles Partington and Suzanne Ipe
Mon 16th - Sat 21st August
12.05pm
theSpaces on the Mile @ The Radisson, Edinburgh.
Mon 16th - Sat 21st August
12.05pm
theSpaces on the Mile @ The Radisson, Edinburgh.
Rome had Carthage, Holmes had Moriarty, and now, Hamlet has Dr. Seuss. Shakespeare’s classic tale of death, deception and madness, told in the style of the beloved Dr. Seuss. Bath University Student Theatre has taken the works of two great men and created something terrifying. Shakespeare is weeping in his grave... and he's probably not the only one.
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The Pillowman
by Martin McDonagh
Fri 11th - Sun 13th June
7.30pm
Museum of Bath at Work, Julian Road, Bath.
The Pillowman is a dark comedy about a writer in a totalitarian state who is caught and interrogated by the police. He describes the gruesome content of his unpublished stories, often involving the murder of children. Gradually, he begins to understand just why they are so interested in the content of his writing?
Confronting the theme of artistic legacy, the dangerous potential of truth and narrative, the power of the storyteller The Pillowman is challenging material that is thought-provoking, frightening, and hilarious. - Vision Theatre
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Juliet and her Romeo
by Daniel Devane
(Adapted from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
Thurs 10th - Sat 12th June
7.30pm
Museum of Bath at Work, Julian Road, Bath.
'Juliet and her Romeo' is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story. The production stresses the key themes of 'love' and 'duality' as it traces the events in the lives the "star-cross'd lovers". The familiar Shakespearian dramatic structure has been minimized without compromising the original poetic language of Shakespeare's text. What remains is an adaptation that strives to show the complexities, as well as the joys, of young love, solely from the perspective of the lovers themselves. The battle raging between their feuding families ignites the spark which turns this love story into a tragedy; "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo".
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You Never Can Tell
by George Bernard Shaw
Thurs 25th - Sat 27th March
7.30pm
Museum of Bath at Work, Julian Road, Bath.
The play is set in a seaside town and tells the story of Mrs Clandon and her three children, Dolly, Phillip and Gloria, who have just returned to England after an eighteen-year stay in Madeira. The children have no idea who their father is and, through a comedy of errors, end up inviting him to a family lunch. At the same time a dentist named Mr Valentine has fallen in love with the eldest daughter, Gloria. However, Gloria considers herself a modern woman and claims to have no interest in love or marriage. The play continues with a comedy of errors and confused identities, with the friendly and wise waiter, Walter, dispensing his wisdom with the titular phrase "You Never Can Tell."
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And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
(Adapted by Giles Partington)
Thurs 4th - Sat 6th March
7.30pm
The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Bath.
Ten strangers are brought together to Soldier Island by letter of invitation from an unknown party. By the end of the first evening, a voice has accused them of murder and one of them is dead. Is the killer one of the group, or an outside force? Will they work it out before the killer reaches the last line in the fatal poem... 'and then there were none'?
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12th Night
by William Shakespeare
December 2009
Arts Lecture Theatre, University of Bath, Bath.
Shakespeare's classic is brought to the stage in a way that will leave the audience in tears of laughter! See twins Viola and Sebastian battle through a shipwreck, and tthen deal with the hardest task of all, being in love!
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All In The Timing
by David Ives
October 2009
Arts Lecture Theatre, University of Bath, Bath.
This collection of five hilarious short comedies by contemporary American playwright David Ives takes us from a man hopelessly trying to pick up a date to a trio of caged monkeys attempting to retype Hamlet. Along the way we even meet a certain Russian revolutionary struggling to cope with the mountain climber?s axe he has just discovered in his head. Each play combines Ives' original ideas and superb use of wordplay to deliver a side-splitting evening of entertainment.
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