Table Top Shakespeare - Richard Lowdon - August 2016

The idea is as mad as it is brilliant: Forced Entertainment brings you the Complete Works of Shakespeare - all 36 plays. No one is able to enact works quite like the experimental theatre company from Sheffield, creating maximum theatre impact on a minimum setting. To stage the playwright’s comedies and tragedies they require only a table, a selection of ordinary, everyday objects and no more than 60 minutes for each production. Macbeth is played by a bottle of linseed oil, a cardboard box full of screws stands in for Prince Malcolm, and Hamlet is now a bottle of balsamic vinegar. The production will be at the Kaserne in Basel from 1 - 9 September. Founding member, production designer and actor Richard Lowdon talked to the English Show about what to expect when you go to see the production.