Ridiculusmus – Alas! Poor Yorick

WHEN: 27/04/2025

WHERE: Helston Old Chapel

SHOW STARTS: 7:30 pm

COST: Supporter £19, Standard £14, Supported £10

ACCESS INFORMATION: There is level access from the tarmac path into the side door of the chapel. There is space inside the chapel for wheelchairs. The seating will be on pews. If the promoters can support you at any of our events in other ways please contact them on [email protected] A small pop-up bar is available at most events. Card payments only. There are currently limited facilities, please be aware that there will be an accessible portaloo for most events.

If the Two Ronnies were cast as the Gravediggers in Shakespeare’s Hamlet re-written by Samuel Beckett you might have something like Ridiculusmus’s “Alas! Poor Yorick”. Mixing the mundane with the magical; moments of banal idiocy are interspersed with ones of cinematic elegance to an underscore of groans, grunts and the odd Shakespearean aside.

The legendary independent theatre double act of Jon Haynes and David Woods pull out every trick in their theatrical playbook to create a fresh take on Shakespeare’s much-loved clowns, re-enacting all the preceding acts of the original and meticulously staging the famous graveyard scene in all its 420 year-old glory.

Flipping the Shakespearean original tragedy into an existential clown piece, Ridiculusmus cast aside chaos and mistaken murders to unearth a beautiful and oddly moving meditation on work, faith and existence, with the prevaricating protagonist offered in a refreshingly contemporary light.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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