Summary
When a bunch of guys hang out together without any female influence to soften them up, a gang mentality inevitably develops. So it is with Propeller Theatre, the company founded by Edward Hall in 1997 to produce Shakespeare's canon acted exclusively by men.
The evidence of 14 years of male bonding can be gleaned this week when Propeller fly into Edinburgh with The Comedy of Errors and Richard III, two radically different plays requiring equally apposite approaches. In keeping with their thoroughly modern aesthetic, Hall and the Propeller boys have opted to lace Richard III with a touch of Victorian Gothic, whereby the man who would be king marches through what might be a mental asylum. For The Comedy of Errors, Hall has taken the company's all lads together approach to the limit by setting it on a cheap and cheerful 1980s package tour in some equally cut-price Mediterranean resort.See the full content of this document
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On a Wing and a Prayer
"I remembered what it was like," says Hall, "scarpering off to Tenerife or Magaluf with your mates. One minute the sun's shining and everybody's having this enormous laugh. The next, things go horribly wrong and everything's a mess."
Hall's approach to Shakespeare is ref...See the full content of this document
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