Dear Friends By now you'll most likely have seen the posts on Facebook, and the tweets, heard us talk about it or come across a flyer; you may even have booked your tickets already: our Shakespeare adventure is nudging ever closer and with now less than a month till our London Previews and just over a month till our first night at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, we want to tell you what we're up to and also point you towards a couple of video clips that may be of interest: Here's a short interview with Sebastian about The Sonneteer, which gives you a good idea of what the play is about and how it's going to tell the story of this most personal of Shakespeare's works and its endlessly fascinating characters. And here, by way of a taster, really, is our first teaser-trailer, which tells you nothing about the play, but does give you a bit of a flavour of one of the most famous sonnets of them all: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day.   Tickets are now on general sale from the Edinburgh Fringe Box Office and because it's Shakespeare's 450th birthday year, we also have a genuinely amazing Shakespeare @ 450 pence offer, with no fewer than 154 tickets available at 450 pence each (plus a small 50p booking fee) on selected dates. They'll be available as long as they last on a first come, first served basis, so the sooner you book yours, the more likely you are to get them for the date you want. Obviously, the best place to see us is at the biggest arts festival the world has to offer, but if you're not going to go up to Edinburgh, you can also catch one of our two London Previews. Ticket availability for these is already limited, so please do book yours now: they're only a tenner (plus a one pound booking fee).  Finally though, if you can't make it to either, then all is not lost, because thanks to our entirely unique Give a Seat / Take a Seat scheme, you can send somebody who otherwise could ill afford to go to the theatre to do so on your behalf. It's a super-simple 'pay-forward' scheme that allows generous minded people like you to spread the love, helps us build an audience and opens up a theatre experience to those who find ticket prices a struggle: everybody wins. (Alternatively, you may, of course, just opt to make a simple donation, if you like.) So we very much look forward to seeing many of you either at the Landor, or up in Edinburgh: we'll be hanging about after the show, so come and talk to us and tell us what you make of our take on William Shakespeare and his wonderful Sonnets! With lots of love and sending splendid Summer Solstice vibes Sebastian & Tom
What drove the celebrated poet, playwright and actor to write a suite of sonnets about beauty, life and the passage of time and address them to a handsome young man? Obsession? Folly? Infatuation? Or was there more than meets the eye today? In a dynamic new take on an old question, two contemporary characters delve into some of the most glorious poetry ever composed, as they weave in and out of the past in search for a plausible truth about love. EVERYTHING IS CONJECTURE. EXCEPT THE WORDS.