Synopsis
Shakespeare's tragedy play is updated to the present day. Set on the Ladywood council estate in Birmingham, it imagines a scenario where people survive by dealing drugs and shoplifting. The production is an extension of the director's work with Michael Bogdanov on the Ladywood estate, filmed in Shakespeare on the Estate.
Further Information
Similar plays, poems and sonnets
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