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Prague Frill 2024
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Presented inured to Pip Nullify Theatre Front elevation. and acting at Apartment Rubin
Written existing performed spawn Pip Unwrap (and William Shakespeare)
Directed unreceptive Nicola Fleming
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At Home With Will Shakespeare
Aug 22 2024 | By Rebecca MaharMore
★★★★★ Sans nothing
Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33): Tue 20 – Mon 26 Aug 2024
Review by Rebecca Mahar
It’s a popular image of Shakespeare: the great Bard, bent over his desk, quill flying over parchment as he composes some of the greatest drama ever put on the stage.
But in At Home With Will Shakespeare, Pip Utton’s Shakespeare does not write freely; he agonizes, crumpling his papers and clutching his head as his audience files in. He is struggling to write, we will soon learn, one of his greatest hits, but there’s a knocking in his head that will be never at quiet.
Pip Utton is At Home With Will Shakespeare. Pic: Supplied.
Shakespeare aficionados will recognise the reference, and indeed it’s the first of many as Utton begins to talk his way through Shakespeare’s life. Weaving in many of his famous quotes and speeches, either as simply part of the dialogue, or as responses to things that have happened to Shakespeare— things that, perhaps, inspired him to write.
There’s a lot we don’t know about Shakespeare and his life, which Utton freely admits and demonstrates, pointing out that we don’t really even know what Shakespeare looked like (which is convenient for actors trying to portray
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REVIEW: At Home with Will Shakespeare, Pip Utton, Prague Fringe 2024 ★★★★☆
Shakespeare is hungover, and we’ve joined him for an evening of contemplating how to finish a rather famous speech for actor Richard Burbage. Pip Utton offers up a whiplash-inducing, all-encompassing tour inside the Bard’s brain with all the gusto and verve he can fit into an hour. All of the classic speeches, sonnets, and songs (yes, he did write songs apparently) are delivered interspersed between Shakespeare trying to clear up the facts and misinformation surrounding his life, through a time-warped perspective in which the Bard is all too aware of the reputation he’s garnered over the centuries.
For many actors, this would be a tough ask. For Utton, however, he is able to deliver a constantly engaging, often hilarious, always insightful, and at times quite introspective performance with minimal set and props, and a clean and simple lighting wash. It’s clear from the moment you settle into the show that Utton will have the audience like putty in his hands – he delivers sonnets directly to members of the audiences, asks others for suggestions on how to finish his works, and even asks for a kiss on the cheek from one at the end.
Far from a one man show, Utton conducts th