Stand-up comic and nascent playwright Russell Kane brings his second Fakespeare production to the Soho Theatre for five nights of modern bard hilarity. Fakespeare started as a simple solo routine before morphing into a series of sketches and, finally, a much feted one-hour piece at the Edinburgh Festival, entitled The Lamentable Tragedie of Yates's Wine Lodge. The concept is pretty simple: a different take on updating Shakespeare for the contemporary age where our silly modern woes are taken and reworked into Fakespearian verse. Thus, The Tragical Savings of King Nigel tells the story of a vile Essex banker who is torn between his overweight orange wife, "the Gorgon", and his secretary and secret lover, Donna of Billericay. King Nigel has lost all his money gambling on the market and must himself do in - but will Donna save him, or will Nigel resort to making a nefarious investment in Sudan? The triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated Kane writes, directs and stars in this "cross-century mash-up with the joy of language dripping from his lips" (The Sunday Times).
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