The Complete Deaths

Fri 20 May to Sat 21 May 2016

PLAYHOUSE

There are 74 onstage deaths in the works of William Shakespeare - 75 if you count the black ill-favoured fly killed in Titus Andronicus.

They range from the Roman suicides in Julius Caesar to the death fall of Prince Arthur in King John; from the carnage at the end of Hamlet to snakes in a basket in Antony & Cleopatra; from Pyramus and Thisbe to young Macduff. There are countless stabbings, plenty of severed heads, some poisonings, two mobbings and a smothering. Enorbarbus just sits in a ditch and dies from grief. And then there’s the pie that Titus serves the Queen of the Goths.

Spymonkey will perform them all - sometimes lingeringly, sometimes messily, sometimes movingly, sometimes musically, always hysterically. The four ‘seriously, outrageously, cleverly funny clowns' (Time Magazine) will scale the peaks of sublime poetry, and plumb the depths of darkest depravity. It may even be the death of them.

A Spymonkey co-production with Brighton Festival and Royal & Derngate Northampton

Cast

Stephan Kreiss - Performer

Stephan Kreiss

Performer

Petra Massey - Performer

Petra Massey

Performer

Aitor Basauri - Performer

Aitor Basauri

Performer

Toby Park - Performer

Toby Park

Performer

Company

Tim Crouch Directed and adapted by

Lucy Bradridge Designed by

Phil Supple Lighting by

Toby Park Original music by

Theo Clinkard / Janine Fletcher Choreography by

Sam Bailey Video Design

Lucy Skilbeck Assistant Director

Reviews

The Complete Deaths

★★★★★
"Visceral, paradoxically full of life and all tied together by an elusive fly."

The Complete Deaths

★★★★★
"The Complete Deaths is truly brilliant entertainment, with an underlying depth for those who want it."

The Complete Deaths

★★★★
"Just the right amount of emotion to make the humour poignant as well as hilarious."

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The Complete Deaths
The Complete Deaths // reviews

★★★★★
"Truly brilliant entertainment, with an underlying depth for those who want it"
The Arts Desk

★★★★
"Just the right amount of emotion to make the humour poignant as well as hilarious"
The Observer

★★★★★
"Often crude, often vulgar, always daft, but also completely and utterly joyous"
The Argus

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