"Shale's adaptation is cleverly structured: lifting you up with its comedy and then, when you least expect it, creeping up and mugging your heart."

Lyn Gardner, Guardian

 

The Prince of West End Lane

Sunday 29 January

When the octogenarian residents of the Emma Lazarus Luxury Care Home in North London attempt to rehearse a kosher production of HAMLET, all seems to be going well until their leading man, the Prince of Denmark, drops dead.

The Prince of West End Lane is based on the award winning novel The Prince of West End Avenue by the late Alan Isler. The play begins as a humorous take on life in a Jewish retirement community, but becomes a moving meditation on the guilt of a survivor (in all aspects of the word).

The writer and actor Kerry Shale originally adapted the novel as a one man show in 1997, performing it at the Edinburgh Fringe, Hampstead Theatre and subsequently around the world.

This Globe staged reading will be the first public performance of his new play for eight actors.

Director: Matthew Lloyd, former Artistic Director of the Actors Centre, Co-Artistic Director of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and Associate Director of Hampstead Theatre. 

 

Cast

(subject to change)

Stephen Greif - Otto Korner
Sara Kestelman - Tosca Davidovitz
Trevor Cooper - Nahum Lipschitz
Janine Duvitski - Lottie Grabscheidt & Freide Kerner
Michael Mears - Anton Brookner & Kurt Himmelfarb
Beth Park - Magda Damrosch, Mandy Dattner & Meta Korner
Christopher Ryan - Dr Kominsky, Lazar Poliakov & Tristan Tzara
David Fielder - Adolphe Sinsheimer & Ludwig Kerner

 

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