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 to an underscore of groans, grunts and the odd Shakespearean aside. […]
Our latest play began its life with acclaimed seasons at Artshouse Melbourne, Battersea Arts Centre, London and Summerhall, Edinburgh as part of the British Council Showcase.
So… premiered at Turku fringe where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Brighton Fringe in May 2022. A two hander about a pair of brothers, one in a quarantine hotel, the other in a terraced house in Sheffield. Their mum has died, their solicitors hover; a metaphor of reconciliation and de-polarisation that started as a Brexit response, then a […]
(a 2 hander version) made by us with Jude Kelly and designed by Zoe Atkinson originally co-commissioned by The Brisbane Powerhouse and Barbican Centre. Revived at The Malthouse Melbourne Feb-March 2020. Jon and Dave play Jack and Algernon – and all the other parts.
