Amsterdam Chamber Theatre
CAST
Edmund: Jeroen Kranenburg
Beatrice: Frouke Flieringa
Julia: Tatiana Kouzovkina
Shakey the Ghost: Dimitri Ivanov
Constance: Leanne Littlestone
Orphelia: Saskia Jelsma
Rosaline: Grainne Delaney
Anthony: Forest Naylor
Driver: Olga Luzgina
Script: Grainne Delaney and Forest Naylor
Director/Design: Vladimir Koifman
Music: Ronald Spanier
Costumes: Masha Mikoushina
PLAYING
WITH
SHAKESPEARE
Première 1994 Amsterdam
a rollicking, hilarious new comedy about theatre life on and off stage
… life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
W. Shakespeare
Playing With Shakespeare is a tribute to travelling theatre companies who have toured Europe throughout the centuries The play is about the life such a small troupe; the problems; personal fights, superstitions, struggle for power; lack of money, wheeling and dealing, dragging costumes and sets from place to place and disappointments about ruined performances and small and unappreciative audiences.
The actors are so interwoven with their profession that even in real life they find it easier to communicate with the help of Shakespeare’s lines.