A one person, comedy spoken word show combining videogames and Shakespeare is coming to Croydon next month.
Super Hamlet 64, written and performed by Edward/Edalia Day, is a version of Hamlet rewritten using only quotes from videogames.
It will be performed at Heart of Gaming, an amusement arcade in the Whitgift Centre, on Friday October 19.
Edward/Edalia said: “Hamlet is about a boy struggling to cope with death. Videogames are a medium where you die a million times but never truly.”
They began writing the play 3 years ago, playing videogames for 400 hours as part of the process.
The surreal performance includes "singing ghosts, philosophical zombie shootouts, and an epic boss battle between a Samurai word wielding Ophelia and a giant mechanical beast."
The Croydon performance is the final date of a 2018 tour.
Edward/Edalia is a trans/non-binary spoken word artist, animator and theatre maker based in Norwich.
Tickets are available for £10 at www.edwardday.co.uk
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