I have seen the play Hamlet in the theatre before but never quite like this, performed in a car park in Saltaire village as part of the Saltaire Festival.
In the photo above you can see the Penny Plain Theatre Company performing as ‘Hardcastle’s Mighty Excelsior Theatre Company’, a rabble of destitute Victorian thespians travelling with their own stage. This particular Hamlet is the Improv'd Hamlet version as written by a member of the cast who doubles as their playwright.
All this in the car park of Shipley College with a mobile theatre booth based on a Victorian model.
It was great fun and both the audience and I enjoyed it. There were many young children in the audience and I doubt that they would normally be fans of the original version of Hamlet. However I could easily apply one of my favourite words to The Penny Plain theatre company performance bonkers, but great fun.
Penny Plain were founded and are based in the village of Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales.
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How fun!
"That's me"
Ophelia aka Tess Tiquelle or sometimes Jane Ellison-Bates.
Thanks for super review, Paul.
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