Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare
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UMAC and RISING present
Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare
Conceived and devised by Forced Entertainment
Guild Theatre , Arts and Cultural Building
When
Where
Guild Theatre
Arts and Cultural Building
The University of Melbourne
15 Monash Road, Parkville VIC 3010
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Shakespeare’s complete works re-told with relish (marmalade, dish soap and other bits and bobs).
Sometimes the classics need a bit of a shake-up. In Complete Works, six performers condense all of Shakespeare’s plays—retelling a new one each night around the kitchen table using everyday objects. A vase for the prince. A jar for Juliet. A bottle of Dettol for the nurse. Salt and pepper for the king and queen. It’s the immortal storytelling of The Bard, stripped and seasoned to perfection.
The team from Forced Entertainment know the resilience of these stories lies in their ability to be re-imagined—that the meanings can twist in the telling and the plays were originally written to entertain the masses. So, light on Elizabethan poetry, the shows feel more like a friend has sat you down to prove why the works are such cracking yarns, using only lo-fi puppetry. Each performer has a different take on the action. But every version twists the bottle and releases the essence of Bill’s vision.
Tickets
General Admission
$25
RISING booking fees may apply
Session Details
Each individual performance is approximately 45-60 minutes long – without an interval. There is approximately 5 – 10 minutes between the performances of each play.
This production is recommended for ages 14+.
Supporters
Complete Works is a Forced Entertainment production. Co-produced by Berliner Festspiele – Foreign Affairs Festival, Berlin and Theaterfestival– Basel.
Thanks to the RSC My Shakespeare initiative, which commissioned Tim Etchells’ Be Stone No More, an early, development version of this project, as well as to the people who participated in that phase of the work.
Accessibility
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Accessible toilet available
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Infared Hearing Assist System
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Companion tickets available
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Wheelchair accessible
Images by Hugo Glendinning
Cast & Creatives
Robin Arthur, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden and Terry O’Connor
Performers
Tim Etchells
Director
Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden and Terry O’Connor
Text
Richard Lowdon
Design
Jim Harrison
Sound & Lighting Design
Jim Harrison
Production Management
Eileen Evans
Producer
Performance Schedule
Friday 6 June
7pm - Coriolanus
8pm - Richard II
9pm - As You Like It
Saturday 7 June
3pm - All’s Well That Ends Well
4pm - Henry IV Part 1
5pm - The Merry Wives of Windsor
7pm - Measure for Measure
8pm - Timon of Athens
9pm - Macbeth
Sunday 8 June
3pm - Cymbeline
4pm - Henry IV Part 2
5pm - Taming of the Shrew
7pm - Much Ado About Nothing
8pm - Pericles
9pm - King Lear
Monday 9 June
3pm - Twelfth Night
4pm - King John
5pm - Hamlet
Wednesday 11 June
7pm - The Winter’s Tale
8pm - Henry V
9pm - Titus Andronicus
Thursday 12 June
7pm - Julius Caesar
8pm - Henry VI Part1
9pm - The Merchant of Venice
Friday 13 June
7pm - The Comedy of Errors
8pm - Henry VI Part 2
9pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday 14 June
3pm - Troilus and Cressida
4pm - Henry VI Part 3
5pm - Othello
7pm - Love’s Labour’s Lost
8pm - Two Gentlemen of Verona
9pm - Romeo and Juliet
Sunday 15 June
3pm - Antony and Cleopatra
4pm - Richard III
5pm - The Tempest
Shakespeare’s complete works re-told with relish (marmalade, dish soap and other bits and bobs).
Sometimes the classics need a bit of a shake-up. In Complete Works, six performers condense all of Shakespeare’s plays—retelling a new one each night around the kitchen table using everyday objects. A vase for the prince. A jar for Juliet. A bottle of Dettol for the nurse. Salt and pepper for the king and queen. It’s the immortal storytelling of The Bard, stripped and seasoned to perfection.
The team from Forced Entertainment know the resilience of these stories lies in their ability to be re-imagined—that the meanings can twist in the telling and the plays were originally written to entertain the masses. So, light on Elizabethan poetry, the shows feel more like a friend has sat you down to prove why the works are such cracking yarns, using only lo-fi puppetry. Each performer has a different take on the action. But every version twists the bottle and releases the essence of Bill’s vision.
Cast & Creatives
Robin Arthur, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden and Terry O’Connor
Performers
Tim Etchells
Director
Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden and Terry O’Connor
Text
Richard Lowdon
Design
Jim Harrison
Sound & Lighting Design
Jim Harrison
Production Management
Eileen Evans
Producer
Performance Schedule
Friday 6 June
7pm - Coriolanus
8pm - Richard II
9pm - As You Like It
Saturday 7 June
3pm - All’s Well That Ends Well
4pm - Henry IV Part 1
5pm - The Merry Wives of Windsor
7pm - Measure for Measure
8pm - Timon of Athens
9pm - Macbeth
Sunday 8 June
3pm - Cymbeline
4pm - Henry IV Part 2
5pm - Taming of the Shrew
7pm - Much Ado About Nothing
8pm - Pericles
9pm - King Lear
Monday 9 June
3pm - Twelfth Night
4pm - King John
5pm - Hamlet
Wednesday 11 June
7pm - The Winter’s Tale
8pm - Henry V
9pm - Titus Andronicus
Thursday 12 June
7pm - Julius Caesar
8pm - Henry VI Part1
9pm - The Merchant of Venice
Friday 13 June
7pm - The Comedy of Errors
8pm - Henry VI Part 2
9pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Saturday 14 June
3pm - Troilus and Cressida
4pm - Henry VI Part 3
5pm - Othello
7pm - Love’s Labour’s Lost
8pm - Two Gentlemen of Verona
9pm - Romeo and Juliet
Sunday 15 June
3pm - Antony and Cleopatra
4pm - Richard III
5pm - The Tempest