Shakespearean characters in fight to survive
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FORRES-based Charioteer Theatre Company is getting ready to embark on a tour around Scotland with its latest offering, which is best described as a mix of the classic and the contemporary.
The company, founded in 2004 by artistic director Laura Pasetti, has gone from strength to strength, and thanks to a funding boost, is now preparing to stage its next batch of productions.
Twelve productions have been staged in Italy and Scotland over the past seven years, and the company has also initiated an ongoing programme of training in different genres of theatre, with an emphasis on postgraduate development.
In the latest production, ‘I’m a Shakespearean Character: Get Me Out Of Here’, Shakespearean characters Hamlet, Lady Macbeth and Puck find themselves on the run from Prospero, the powerful wizard from ‘The Tempest’.
The story sees the three characters escape from their Shakespearean confines, then having to go head to head against each other in a bid to survive. Prospero is transformed into a modern-day reality show host, creating a bridge between the audience and the cast, enabling them to volunteer their own questions and connect with the Shakespearean characters.
Charioteer Theatre has based it on the format of ‘I’m a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here’, in a bid to engage the audience in the decision-making process by inviting them to decide which character is deserving of his or her place in the present day.
The production will tour to Johnshaven; New Deer; Cullen; Glenurquhart; Cromarty; Lyth Arts Centre; Skye; Ullapool; St Andrew’s; and the Isles of Harris and Lewis.
Meanwhile, a special preview ‘Get me out of Here’ mini-event will be staged at Forres Town Hall at 1.30pm on Friday (May 27), which should last for about an hour and a half.
Visit the website at www.charioteertheatre.co.uk for more information.
