Chaos/Hamlet

A double-bill performed by our BTEC Acting students.

Chaos by Laura Lomas

A girl is locked in a room. A boy brings another boy flowers. A girl has tied herself to a railing. A boy doesn’t know who he is. A girl worries about impending catastrophe. A woman jumps in front of a train. A boy’s heart falls out his chest. A butterfly has a broken wing.

Laura Lomas’s play Chaos is a symphony of dislocated and interconnected scenes. A series of characters search for meaning in a complicated and unstable world. Bouncing through physics, the cosmos, love and violence, they find order in the disorder of each other.

Content warnings: References to domestic violence, death and depression.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

‘Brevity is the soul of wit’
More than just a revenge play, Hamlet deals with questions about life and existence, sanity, love, death, and betrayal. It is one of the most quoted works of literature in the world and has been translated into 75 languages (including Klingon).

Content warning: Depictions of death, murder and violence, references to suicide, use of blood

The plays will be performed back-to-back, separated by a 15 minute interval.

Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes, including interval.