Russell Kane’s Fakespeare: The Tragickal Saveings of King Nigel

Following a complete sell out run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, playwright and triple if.comedy award nominee Russell Kane brings you his celebrated blank verse bonanza.

Shakespeare has been reinvented in modern form many times. Russell turns this notion on its head by taking our silly modern woes and re-working them into Fakespearian verse.

King Nigel is an Essex banker who has lost everything. No options are left and thus he must himself do in. But can his secret lover and PA, Donna of Billericay, save him from himself?

Russell Kane writes, directs and stars in this bawdy romp in blank verse with Sadie Hasler (Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder, ITV1).

“Kane creates his cross-century mash-up with the joy of language dripping from his lips and echoes of Steven Berkoff at his youthful best.” The Sunday Times