The Performance: Eddie Izzard's Hamlet
The Space: The Fairfax Studio at the Arts Centre
Until July 12 (Limited tickets available)
Runtime: 2 hours 15 minutes with an interval
Stars: 5
"Tell your friends, get on the socials. Let them know there's a trans woman doing Hamlet. It's gotta be pissing somebody off somewhere." These were Suzy Izzard's parting words. Them's fighting words. Good on her.
Suzy, as she likes to be known, along with using she/her pronouns, is phenomenal this a one woman working of the Bard's seminal play.
Yes, a solo show where the performer takes on Hamlet. Who knew?
This was mesmerising.
Regular visitors to this blog know that I'm a Shakespeare boffin. I've probably seen Hamlet a dozen times over the years. I love a good lugubrious Dane taking arms against a sea of a family shit show (see what I did there?)
Of course, an unabridged Hamlet runs to around four hours - and you can always hunt out Branagh's 1996 masterpiece for that (Anybody up for seeing that next time it's on at the Astor?)
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