Review: Hamlet The Comedy @ New Theatre Royal

by Dai Howells

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Yet, the slapstick humour of Oddsocks’ unique takes on Shakespearean classics allows speedy respite from the bile this world has a knack of inducing.

Speaking the text 99% the way it was written by buy drugs online the Bard himself, yet making it funny, is no mean feat. Oddsocks are masters of their trade, managing to take loaded soliloquies and inject them with humour, often just on delivery alone. Florida codes bank Never before has To Be Or Not To Be been a bombastic hair-metal number, or has poor Yorick been exhumed replete with jester’s hat.

Twinned with a set that looked like M.C. Escher doing a turn at panto and Paul Daniels’ cameo as the Ghost – magic tricks inevitably followed – the show quickly established itself as the perfect antidote to all those that proclaim “Shakespeare Buy Revia Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed is shit!” That is, of course, if they can stop dribbling into their cornflakes long enough to tender an opinion.

Oddsocks’ next production runs in 2012 and will be Macbeth. Though by then the Tories will have sold off all the forests so how Burnham Wood will be able to make its journey to Dunsinane Castle is yet to be revealed.

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