LATITUDE FESTIVAL
Thursday 16th - Sunday 19th July
HENHAM PARK, SOUTHWOLD,
SUNRISE COAST, SUFFOLK
Russell Kane's Fakespeare
Literary Arena
Saturday 18th July, 2009Imagine if everyone in essex spoke in Shakespearian verse.
That’s what double if.comedy nominee did last year at The Edinburgh Festival when he presented his first Fakespeare play ‘The Lamentable Tragedie of Yates’s Wine Lodge’. The barcardi breezer’d blank verse bonanza was a critical and sellout smash, going onto various arts festivals and eventually the RSC’s main stage in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Too often, Shakespeare-philes rewrite his plays into modern language. Oh look - Othello in rap. See here Romeo and Juliet in chav-speake. It was time to try it the other way round: Our transient, modern, silly, and vile stories, told with a olde-speake relish for language and verse.
“I desire thee as all of girls aloud
combined. The ginger one removéd.”
“If beauty be the goal of nature, then
thy netting is by goodly Ronaldo
infinitely struck upon.”
He’s back with another. King Nigel is a two-hander tragedie and historie. Starring Russell Kane and Sadie Hasler (ITV1’s Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder’.) It takes place in an Essex Banker’s lair. Nigellio is lost in self-ruin. He is given an ultimatum and must decide if he should sink even lower into moral oblivion and save himself. Will love for his mistress and PA Donna of Billericay rescue him, or will he see sense and effing top himself.
