Selected Works: Table Top Shakespeare

A salt and pepper pot for the king and queen. A ruler for the prince. A spoon for the servant. A water bottle for the messenger.
Two performers create condensed versions of some of Shakespeare?s most iconic plays, creating lovingly made miniatures played out on a one metre table-top. In Selected Works the dynamic force of storytelling is explored in a unique and highly accessible way. Each work re-tells the story of a Shakespeare play using ordinary everyday language and bric-a-brac objects as stand-ins for the characters, creating worlds as vivid as they are strange.
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Anti-elitism in ancient Rome: plebeians versus patricians ? and in the middle of it all, a rumbling stomach.
Duke Vincentio attempts to combat widespread moral decay measure for measure. But even show trials and the death penalty do little good
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A jealous husband tyrannizes his wife, his child and his best friend. To get to a happy ending takes 16 years and the discovery of a coastline in ?Bohemia?.
What joyous loving, hunting, joking, conjuring, cuddling, scaring and taunting in the forests near Athens, complete with a play within a play and enough characters for every school theatre company.
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But what do you want? Cesario loves Orsino. Orsino loves Olivia. Olivia loves Cesario. But Cesario isn?t really Cesario: she?s Viola.
Tragedy, murder, suicide. Love, prejudice, jealousy, betrayal ? what?s not to like?
?It?s a reminder that one person ? armed with a story and some bric-a-brac ? can create colossal worlds.?- The Stage
Selected Works is a Forced Entertainment production. Conceived and devised by Forced Entertainment
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