Comedy With Russell Kane?s Fakespeare: The Tragickal Saveings Of King Nigel
Published 17th Feb 2010 by Komedia

Following a complete sell out run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, nascent playwright and triple if.comedy award-nominee RUSSELL KANE brings you his celebrated blank verse bonanza.

“This is an ingenious show that illustrates Kane’s diverse talents”
Edinburgh Evening News

Shakespeare has been reinvented in modern form many times. Russell turns this notion on its head: Why not take our silly modern woes and re-work them into Fakespearian verse?

“Wonderful play from this very gifted young comedian”
Time Out

King Nigel is an Essex banker who has lost everything. No options are left (yes, a banking pun), and thus he must himself do in. But can his secret lover and PA, Donna of Billericay, save him from himself? Or will she also be pulled into his bubbling pit of excremental mental evil and that?

“Kane creates his cross-century mash-up with the joy of language dripping from his lips and echoes of Steven Berkoff at his youthful best”
The Sunday Times

Russell Kane writes, directs and stars in this two-hander with Sadie Hasler (Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder, ITV1). Fakespeare is a ridiculously bawdy romp in blank verse, with more similes than…err...I can’t think of one. Join us and let us play to thee till thy mind throbs with trope.

“Nearly as funny as Donald Sinden”
Michael Boyd, Artistic Director RSC


RUSSELL KANE’s FAKESPEARE visitsKomedia Brighton on Sunday 28 February at 7.30pm. Tickets are £12/£10 available on-line at www.komedia.co.uk/brighton or from the Box Office on 0845 293 8480.

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