Tragic (When My Mother Married My Uncle)

Tragic (When My Mother Married My Uncle)

Subway Theatre
Fri 10 Oct 2014   -  Sat 11 Oct 2014
14.00 - 15.15 (Fri only), 19.45 - 21.00 (75 minutes)

"A mini masterpiece"
The Scotsman
"The laughs keep coming"
The Gaurdian
"memorable poignancy and intensity; thanks to a fine, controlled performance from Sean Purden Brown as a demotic Prince"
The Scotsman
"Iain Heggie's fresh look at the Bard, performed with youthful confidence by Sean Purden Brown"
Glasgow Herald
"over 75 minutes it becomes as current as the version of Shakespeare's original currently running at the Citizens Theatre"
Glasgow Herald
"walks a tight-rope between a sharp and brilliantly accessible rewrite of an essential story, and the kind of sudden comic bathos... when audiences recognise a familiar Shakespearean scene recast in deliberately down-to-earth language'"
The Scotsman
Minor Sexual References
_ Price: £12.00 / £8.00
_ Group Price: £5 PP (School Parties)
_ Age Group: 15+
_ Venue: Red Lecture Theatre
Tickets

‘You cant kill someone just cos a ghost tells you. I mean, is a ghost the most reliable source?’

Iain Heggie’s hilarious, exciting and moving contemporary language adaptation of Hamlet clears away the fog and brings the great story to vivid pulsating life.

AUDIENCE REACTION TO FIRST PREVIEWS

‘bought out the humour wonderfully’

‘bristling with disgust, contempt, sorrow, confusion and bravado’

‘played with conviction, clarity and zest’