Shakespeare For Breakfast
C theatres
Venue: C theatre
We took our
leave of Edinburgh on our last morning at the 2014 Fringe with Shakespeare For Breakfast, a truly hilarious but wholly
affectionate skit on Shakespeare’s language, plots and characters. C theatres mount a comedy production under
this title every year at the Fringe, and this year’s was a riot.
Modern-day lighting
tech Steph finds herself magically transported to an island disguised as a boy
called Steve, where she meets a whole cast of warring characters, some of which
are plotting to kill their maker. Prince William lookalike Henry V wanders on
in a pair of Union Jack shorts; Hamlet is a moody teenager in a hoodie punching
“To be or not to be #goodquestion” into his iPhone.
There’s much
punning humour (Ariel from The Tempest
is “the font of all knowledge”), gender confusion and doubling up of roles from
the small but endlessly energetic company, and of course it all turns out all
right in the end with a double marriage. And you get coffee and croissants as well!!
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