So
we’re a mere 13 days away from the opening of the No Holds Bard festival, which
features my one act play ‘Poor Yorick’ – and panic has begun to set in as we’ve
yet to run the play all the way through..
Yorick (Will Smith-Haddon) makes himself at home in Hamlet's (Chris Powell) room at Elsinore |
Focusing on Hamlet’s story as seen through the
eyes of his court jester who has gone on tour pioneering stand-up comedy, the play
is at least getting plenty of laughs from the cast during rehearsals.
It’s
quite a cast too! Will Smith-Haddon is great as Yorick, the clown who’s ahead of his time with his observational humour – “What is it with the Black
Death? That's a bit depressing isn't it?”
Yorick (Will Smith-Haddon) and Bess (Clare Drewett) may not have much but at least they have each other |
Yorick and Hamlet discuss vacancies for court jester while Queen Gertrude (Sue Morgan) attempts to clean the room |
The
festival is Newport Playgoers’ contribution to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s
Open Stages project which aims to reunite the worlds of amateur and
professional theatre. With four plays offering a mixture of slapstick, bloody
sword fights and romantic mix-ups it promises to be an evening of lively
entertainment that gives a thoroughly modern take on Shakespeare and turns his
plots into plays for today. For more information check out http://newportplaygoers.wordpress.com/
We're all really excited that our local newspaper, the South Wales Argus, is sponsoring the festival. Please
come along and support us from 15 – 17 March at the Dolman Theatre, Newport. Tickets,
which are just £5 and £7, can be booked by phoning the box office on 01633
263670 or visiting www.dolmantheatre.co.uk.
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