If any of you know me you probably know that I love theatre. Recntly me and some lovely people from school went along to see a piece of shakespearan theatre in an unused car park in Peckham. Yep it definetly sounds like an unusual place to have a peice of shakespeare performed but it strangely worked
After jumping on the train to peckham after school we made our way to the car park. The play we were about to watch was Titus, one of Shakespeares first plays and possiably one of his most gruesome? At the very top of the car park was a rustic looking bar which overlooked London. It was slightly dark outside when we got there so it was a really nice expereince looking over the bar. Soon the play started and it was mesmorising from the very start. It involved physical theatre and a lot of movement. The fighting scenes were really well choragraphed and a few of the actors were phenomenal. The audeicne were encouraged to move around to different sections with the actors as the play progressed which really broke down the fourth wall between performer and audience which I find helps you connect more to the performance.
They modinised the play to an extent, me being a bit of a shakespeare nut am not normally keen on mordinsaing Shakespeare as it completly takes it out of the context, changes the meaning and it never quite works for me however they did not change the dialogue but incorparted cars and at one point put the decapiated heads into morrisons bags but it worked. It was a low budget production but the actors managed to still pull of a professional production.
