Act Now! Presents SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES 7/7-12 At Greenwich Playhouse

ACT NOW! DRAMA COMPANY presents Something Wicked This Way Comes, adapted and directed by David Hunt from the works of William Shakespeare

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

Tales of evil featuring Shakespeare's most notorious villains and villainesses

In a desert place, three mysterious women conjure up Shakespeare's most infamous villains and villainesses, empowering them to commit their heinous crimes.

Iago from Othello, the wicked Queen from Cymbeline, Edmund, Goneril and Regan from King Lear, Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Tamora of the Goths, the Macbeths, the cunning Shylock from The Merchant of Venice and Angelo from Measure for Measure are brought together to illustrate the nature of their Natures! This dark script consists of Shakespeare's original text from his plays and sonnets, approaching the question of what creates evil in the human mind.

The sinister hostesses of the drama are the wonderful mistresses of ceremonies, the three weird sisters from Macbeth, who invoke the most evil of Shakespearean personae's and their unsuspecting victims.

"No one who conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed."
- Sigmund Freud

Something Wicked This Way Comes is presented at the Greenwich Playhouse by Act Now! Drama Company following on from their successful production of Sophocles Electra at The Courtyard.

"The rousing final sequence brought the audience to its feet and left many memorable moments in the mind." REMOTE GOAT, 2009

William Shakespeare is acknowledged as perhaps the greatest playwright of all time. His tragedies neatly cast their emotional and dramatic spells on generations of theatregoers and scholars alike. Shakespeare's surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Director/Writer David Hunt's recent productions include Electra at The Courtyard, Coward's Way, The Passion of Henrik Ibsen, That Happy Feeling!, Mind Games and The Tragedy of Federico Garcia Lorca at The Broadway Studio Theatre, West End Gold at The Gaiety Theatre (IOM), Beyond Therapy at Swansea Grand Theatre. His other directing credits include Blood Wedding, As You Like It, The Tempest and Blithe Spirit at The Barn Theatre, When You Wish at Windsor, Yerma, Present Laughter and Much Ado About Nothing at Dramascope Studios and over 90 showcase performances at Rose Bruford College. David trained at The Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and continues to work as an actor. He is the Artistic Director of the Act Now! Drama Company.

Dates:
7th - 12th July 2009
Tues-Sat at 7.30pm, Sun at 4pm

Venue:
Greenwich Playhouse, Greenwich Station Forecourt, 189 Greenwich High Road,
London, SE10 8JA

Tickets:
£12 (£10 concs)

Box Office:
Tel: 020 8858 9256/ Email: boxoffice@galleontheatre.co.uk
Online at: www.galleontheatre.co.uk

Nearest Station:
Greenwich (DLR/Rail)

Further info can be found on www.actnowdramaco.com / www.galleontheatre.co.uk

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