LONON - The award-winning Two Gents Productions return to London with a radical new take on Shakepeare's revenge tragedy in London at Oval House Theatre for a limited three week run from November 16 to December 4, 2010. In a world of unyielding beliefs and ritual, Hamlet returns home to find his father buried, his mother remarried and the spirit world in turmoil. Burdened by misgivings Hamlet strives to set things right.
On a bare stage, with bold Zimbabwean traditional movement and song, two audacious performers, Denton Chikura and Tonderai Munyevu, tear down and rebuild Hamlet to create an urgent, poetic and spiritual re-imagining of Shakespeares classic tale.
Developed in Zimbabwe, using the bad quarto text the shorter, corrupt, pirated, but first to be published, the piece premiered at HIFA 2010 (Harare International Festival of the Arts). Originally commissioned by The Watermill
Theatre, Newbury and celebrated at the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival, Poland this
summer.
Chikura was born in Zimbabwe in 1983 and his recent work includes International Tours of TwoGentlemen of Verona, Magetsi and Kupenga KwaHamlet with Two Gents Productions.
Munyevu is an actors actor, tirelessly devoted to his craft. He studied at the London Centre for Theatre Studies and the National Youth Theatre. As well as Magetsi, Dzoka! and Vakomana for Two Gents Productions, his acting credits
include TheMerchant of Venice (Arcola), The Invention of Love and Dark of the Moon. But it was with Yours Abundantly, from Zimbabwe that he consolidated years of workshoping, readings and devised projects focusing on the plight of
Zimbabwean immigrants and those left behind at home.
“Seriously entertaining… Zimbabwean actors Denton Chikura and Tonderai Munyevu play all fifteen roles with music hall aplomb, skilfully tempered by emotional insight,” reads a review in The Observer.
For more information visit: www.ovalhouse.com
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