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Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare archive

Forced Entertainment brings you the Complete Works like you've never seen it before, each of Shakespeare's 36 plays condensed and presented on a tabletop using a cast of everyday objects. A salt and pepper pot for the king and queen. A spoon stands in for a servant and a candle for the Friar. Macbeth becomes a cheese grater, Pericles a light bulb and Hamlet's now a bottle of ink. Theatre pioneers Forced Entertainment explore the dynamic force of narrative and language in their simple yet distinctive summary of the playwright's comedies, tragedies, histories and late works. With an artist from the company retelling each play over the course of a week, audiences can enjoy one or as many performances as they fancy. Intimate and scaled down, the worlds they create are vivid, accessible and often comic.

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O'Connor
Company: Forced Entertainment
Director: Tim Etchells
Design: Richard Lowdon

Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare

Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare (Play) production archive for QTIX code T02143627571. Details of all Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S2130795900

Archive Listings

1 Mar 16
to
6 Mar 16

The Pit, Barbican Centre
West End, Greater London
Performance Details => Venue archive

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CORONAVIRUS: All venues in the UK were shut down on March 16, 2020, and the restrictions were finally lifted on July 19, 2021. It is important to mention that the UK Theatre Web archive listings (iUKTDb) from March 2020 to July 2021 might not be accurate due to the lack of information regarding rescheduled and cancelled shows.