I Am Hamlet is a play by Richard James, available by online publisher and rights agent Lazy Bee and apparently award-winning. With its am-dram setting and pseudo intellectualism, it’s been a hit amongst amateur theatre companies for the past couple of years, elsewhere it had a mixed reception. Importantly, this week at The Wardrobe it’s the turn of Bristol-based company, Page2Stage.
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“. . . Nalika is a naturally funny person with a wonderful energy and (unusually for a comedian) an extremely positive outlook on life. Her charm comes through briefly onstage and the moments which were funniest were those moments which felt more personable, natural and less rehearsed. The show is a balancing act between stand-up comedy and theatrical performance . . .”
Read More“Idle Motion’s That is All You Need to Know is an engrossing and endearing piece of theatre which tells the story of Bletchley Park and the countless men and women who helped crack the enigma code. . . The cast are a strong bunch, bringing sensitivity and truth to these brilliant men and women, often multi-rolling as the play moves between the codebreakers in the forties and the Bletchley committee in the nineties. . . “
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Trevor Carter is the poet of the evening. Mark Darkside plays some amusing songs and Amanda Earthwren is a kind of narrator . . . they are the trio behind this strange piece of nonsense. . . Mark Darkside is a songwriter and wit who belongs to a different generation. His camp and saucy medleys satirize numerous targets from the language in Shakespeare and the lusty Wife of Bath to modern bankers and the internet . . . his songs are genuinely witty and performed boisterously.
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” . . . Exactly as theatre should be, Constellations is vivid, honest and electrifying. It excites the imagination and enflames debate. It strips away and remoulds the narrative structure in order to create a spectacle that makes us question the very nature of our reality. It shows us a world of infinite possibilities and inevitable truths as it leads us through some dark, uncomfortable routes, and still it should leave you feeling warmed, positive and inspired . . .”
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