What a turn up for that March day in April!

This Anzac day, two-up will be traded for couplets as The Old Fitzroy hosts Impro pros, Post-Haste Players, in BARD TO THE BONE, their combustible contribution to the 400th commemoration of Shakespeare’s shuffling off his mortal coil.

Once more into their breeches, (and sometimes out of them), this quartet of knaves and wenches conspire to construct an entire, new Shakespeare play, right before your very eyes.

Using just one word suggested by an audience member to launch into a loopy, lofty, loony bowdlerisation of the Bard, these fevered four fling themselves into a funny and frenetic scenario complete with asides, silly soliloquies, and a sort of pub iambic pentameter, with no time for the verse to go blank!

At a recent preliminary show at The Old Fitz, there was a two tiered curtain raiser with a Bardish ode to the recently deceased Bob Ellis – Ellis would have loved it! – and an oratory to an untended fish pond.

The main event was spawned by a young audience member offering the trigger word “Impawned”, meaning to to pledge, or to pawn.

And thus the foundation was laid for a slick sixty minutes of soft porn, raw prawn and clever corn set in bawdy houses, debtors prison, a garden, a throne room and the high seas.

The players know their Shakespeare, and are fleet of foot and quick of wit, guaranteeing giggles and guffaws from their nimble antics, articulations and character recognition bombs.

This will be a hilarious way to end a long weekend.

The Post-Haste Players production BARD TO THE BONE is playing the Old Fitz on Monday 25th April at 8pm. Tickets $15 and $10 concession. 

 

Tickets $15 / $10 Concession available from EventBrite.com or at the door.