Site-specific, Classic text, Transcultural, Theatre, Adaptation, Storytelling - Annual Programme

Migrant Shakespeare

Seyyar Company (UK/Turkey/transnational)

Think you know your Shakespeare? Think again! This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before – ‘trippingly on the tongue’… Migrant actors take on the Bard, reinterpreting his words in alien environments you will never have imagined before. They give his iconic characters a new life, migrating them into the roles assigned to outsiders by society. Hamlet is a meat-packer, King Lear a construction worker, Caliban a hotel cleaner, Lady Macbeth a housewife looking after children, and Shylock washes the dishes in a restaurant. This is no one Bard: Shakespeare belongs both to no-one and to everyone.

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Watch Trailer

• Theatre
• £10.00
• 1 August 2022
• 30 minutes
• C ARTS | C venues | C digital
• portal – on demand
• 8+ (guidance)
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  Contains distressing themes, contains some distressing audio-viual content including images of dead creatures