Martin Gibbons Archives - North West End UK

Although the first JB Shorts was produced in March 2009 as a one off ‘festival’ of short plays it has grown each year and is now a much anticipated bi annual event presenting 6 short plays over one evening and last night presented its 27th iteration of the format. Track and Field by Sarah Macdonald Hughes Directed by Martin Gibbons When two women meet at a local athletics club attended by their children, a friendship develops between them as their cheer on their offspring from the sidelines. Performed beautifully by Sarah Macdonald Hughes and Rosina Carbone this hilarious observation of friendship between women was an excellent opener to the evening’s entertainment. Its darkly comic content performed with great rapport between the two actors observed the mundanity o...

Director Steve Purcell is to be praised for his heavily abridged adaptation which, coming in at less than half the length of the full text, focuses on the family drama at the heart of the play, bringing a humanity to its protagonist that is rarely seen. Prince Hamlet (Richard Lessen), accompanied by his good friend Horatio (Laura Cooper-Jones), is consumed by grief and anger following the death of his father and his mother Gertrude’s (Tamsin Lynes) hasty marriage to his uncle, Claudius (Martin Gibbons), who then becomes king. He encounters the ghost of his father who reveals he was murdered by Claudius and demands revenge. Hamlet feigns madness to investigate the claim and plan his revenge which causes consternation at the court, whilst his relationship with Ophelia (Lynes), daughter of...

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JB Shorts 27 – 53two

Hamlet – Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden, Shakespeare North Playhouse