Shakespeare

Sky Blue Theatre is looking forward to producing a successful Shakespeare production in conjunction with Hong Kong Performing Arts School in the near future. Check back soon for more details!

Sky Blue Theatre also works to bring top quality accessible productions of Shakespeare’s plays to theatres nationwide. To achieve this Sky Blue directors continue to develop a close working relationship with MOPA Theatre Company and in particular Nic Brownlie, the celebrated authority on Shakespeare’s plays.

Nic Brownlie believes……

Just as Pantomime tells impossible stories yet makes them cohere through the reality of theatre, so Shakespeare tells impossible stories yet makes them cohere through the reality of theatre.

Because his source material is a combination of a) Theatrical trickery and b) Real life events, it is easy to get caught up in the significance of the real life events and start analysing them as if the whole thing is real life.  However, to do this ignores the theatrical trickery.  And the reality of Shakespeare's plays is not one thing or the other - it is the interaction between theatrical trickery AND real life events.

Taking the "possible" from real life and putting it into a structure that is entirely "theatrical", produces something that is completely removed from real life.  It produces a game in which fitting square pegs into round holes IS THE WHOLE POINT.  To make those pegs appear to fit perfectly is the illusion of theatre.

Fawlty Towers is the absolute example of this at its best - post-Shakespeare.

Mopa Theatre Company