The Brighton Shakespeare Company returns, this time with a new play, a comedy inspired by the works of the bard.
Waiting for Godot meets William Shakespeare via the cartoons of Gary Larson under the pen of Mark Brailsford.
A man washes up on another castaway’s island, a teacher who is in possession of an icon containing a copy of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
Unbeknownst to the castaway teacher, the icon contains an imprisoned and mischievous genie who grants them three wishes, one of which is the conjuring up of Shakespeare’s Juliet from Romeo and Juliet.
Comical confusion ensues when only one of them can communicate with Juliet as all she knows is Elizabethan English.
The wishes get more chaotic, interference comes from other dimensions and the plot twists and turns, leaving only one of them marooned on the deserted island.
I wish I could be a fly on the wall at rehearsals but obviously that’s not going to happen! However, I did manage to grab a rehearsal pic from the inner sanctum in the meantime …
Cast
Mark Brailsford
Sarah Mann
Writer and Director
Mark Brailsford
Tickets
£14.50 (concessions £13.50) from
The Lantern Theatre, 77 St James’s Street, Brighton, BN2 1PA
Performances
At 9pm on
Friday 15 May
Saturday 16 May
Sunday 17 May
Friday 22 May
Saturday 23 May
Sunday 24 May
