As The Fringe celebrates its 60th birthday, the prize for zaniest 2006 production goes to Hamlet set in a bouncy castle.
To see the Prince of Denmark in laddered tights bounding around declaiming “To Be or Not To Be” is a truly surreal experience.
Surely this would have Shakespeare turning in his grave on the 400th anniversary of his death?
Not at all says the play’s director William Seaward. “I think Shakespeare had a sense of humour. He might not have approved, but I think we could have talked him round.”
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