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Article: TakeOver 09 York Theatre Royal and Studio
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- September 30, 2009
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IF nothing else, York Theatre Royal's Ta keover 09 provided me
with my Shakespearean debut. In Hamlet, no less.
I wasn't playing the troubled Prince of Denmark, more of a
supporting role. Namely, the man standing up in the stalls looking
silly with a paper hat on his head and clutching a driver's L-
plate.
Audience participation is a vital ingredient of Factory Theatre's
Hamlet, one of the shows in Ta keOver 09 - the three-week festival
in which the theatre is run, from the board of management to the
cafe, by young people under 26.
Hamlet is Shakespeare - but not as we know it. The cast is chosen
by audience members playing scissors, paper, stone.
This certainly keeps the actors on their ...