A radical retelling of a Shakespeare masterpiece is coming to Tobacco Factory

Posted on: 17 Jun 2024

From Bristol School of Acting comes Elsinore, a brand-new inventive take on one of Shakespeare’s best-known and most widely explored plays, Hamlet.

 

Elsinore runs at Tobacco Factory Theatres from Thursday 27 until Saturday 29 June 2024.

 

Welcome to Elsinore. The royal castle of Denmark where a prince mopes around the corridors, the Queen is shagging the brother of her dead husband and ghosts roam in the forest out back. Something is very wrong in the State of Denmark. Tickets are on sale now for this radical reworking, don’t miss out!

 

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From the mind of the Year One Theatre Making Company of The Wardrobe Ensemble as well as Bristol School of Acting’s Theatre Making programme comes a fresh new show that would catch the conscience of a king.

 

Elsinore will bring together wild movement, vivid storytelling, and candid extracts from the creatives’ diaries for a radical show that plays on the great William Shakespeare’s timeless and deeply explored masterpiece, Hamlet.

 

The play is directed by Tom Brennan, a director, playwright, filmmaker and founding member of The Wardrobe Ensemble, and devised by The Company’s BA (Hons) students for Theatre Making, an industry-led performance training focused on collaborating and the creation of original work.

 

This comes as part of the BSA degree productions programme that also includes productions of Frederico García Lorca’s explosive Blood Wedding, Matthew Dunster’s 2016 play Those Who Trespass, and Tony Kushner’s sweeping drama, Angels in America.

 

 

Elsinore runs at Tobacco Factory Theatres from Thursday 27 until Saturday 29 June 2024 with standard tickets available from £15 and concessions from £12 – secure your tickets HERE.

 

For a comprehensive look at what’s coming up at Tobacco Factory Theatres, visit the theatre’s website.

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