Shakespeare in Terror
By Helen Shay
Illustration by Daniel Shay
You’ve seen him in love, but what about terror? A quick soliloquy with a skull is not always the answer, as our hapless bard – dumbstruck by writer’s block - discovers in a chance meeting with a certain ‘Guido Fawkes’, arguably the first home-grown terrorist. Historically possible, this brief encounter raises questions of whether words do speak louder than action - or even gunpowder. Laced with dark magic and even darker lust (not to mention three untraditionally-glamorous witchy ‘midnight hags’), this comedy-drama will soon see a reprise at York..