PRESS RELEASE for immediate release June 2024
Fringe is all about trying out new ideas and it is always exciting to see some fresh twists on Shakespeare. ICA Company of Fools are In Defiance of the Bard investigating what would happen if six of Shakespeare's leading ladies met in Capulet's Garden to school young Juliet in matters of the heart. Can their advice save the star-crossed lovers?
After being rediscovered in a Leicester car park, Richard III has been subject to many interpretations. A bold, one-person Richard III from Brite Theater pushes the boundaries of Shakespearean performance as the audience assumes all other roles in this exciting, moving production... but do they survive?
Buxton is fortunate to have the superb, award-winning solo performer Caroline Burns Cooke with Gruoch: The Lady Macbeth, her feminist, myth-centred, lyrical origin tale of Gruoch - the real-life inspiration behind Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth. The production takes audiences from her childhood to her final fateful moments stalking through the castle halls.
In a dramatic high-wire act, Stephen Longstaffe, a university lecturer, improvisor and clown, reinvents classic Shakespeare soliloquies from audience suggestions in Shakespeare on the Spot. Whether funny or serious, it promises to be unique every time as Longstaffe uses random objects to replace Yorick's skull or turns his attention to the things that really annoy Richard III.
As if that wasn’t enough, elsewhere in the programme Impromptu Shakespeare return with their improv comedy creating a riotous new Shakespeare play every time, and the ever-popular Shakespeare Jukebox will be in Pavilion Gardens letting audiences choose one of the bard’s greatest hits.
Fringe Chair Stephen Walker says: “It’s always great to see Shakespeare reinterpreted and I’m confident our audiences will enjoy themselves immensely!”
Further theatre offerings can be found on www.buxtonfringe.org.uk and on the free to download Buxton Fringe App.
The Fringe wishes to thank High Peak Borough Council, its Fringe Friends and the town’s many Fringe supporters and venues.
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