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About the Show

Christopher Hunter’s one-man dramatisation of William Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis.

One morning, a boy wakes up and goes out. 24 hours later, a distraught woman comes across his mutilated dead body. This tragedy unfolds throughout Shakespeare's poem, Venus and Adonis.

William Shakespeare wrote Venus and Adonis during the Plague epidemic of 1593 when London’s theatres were forced to close - his playwrighting career had barely begun. Venus and Adonis was his first work to be published and was an instant bestseller.

Christopher Hunter has adapted Shakespeare's poem into a one-man drama.

This production is recommended for ages 16+.

Critic Reviews (2)

"The performance ambles between overly physical and shackled by stillness. Hunter delivers the difference in characters through caricatural vocal modulations, which redundancy adds Venus's excessive flamboyancy in an annoying chain of vapid banality. We come out of it with very little."
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" 'Venus and Adonis' make a welcome addition to Riverside Studios’ array of exciting and varied work and, given the poem’s history, it’s a delight to see this early piece of The Bard’s bibliography explored for new generations and with such intelligent outlooks behind it."
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