Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark from the Listies
Event description
Australia’s favourite kidult comedy duo, The Listies, are back with their hilarious adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic.
A very cheeky, very clever, utterly irreverent riff on Hamlet – made especially for children!
The Listies, maestros of children’s entertainment, have pulled apart Shakespeare’s classic and glued it back together with hilarious costumes, loads of silliness and plenty of interactivity.
Hamlet is already full of things kids love in a good story: ghosts, castles, sword fights, bodily fluids and spooky stuff. Add to the mix some supersonic gags and expertly timed stage magic and you have a brilliantly disguised Shakespearean tragedy for everyone aged five and over.
And that’s not all… expect bonus pillow fights, pirates, ninjas, ninja pirates, aliens, ninja pirate aliens, zombies and a bunch of other hilarious stuff as The Listies take kids and their adults on a fun-filled hour of theatre. The only thing we can be sure of is that everyone dies at the end – including the audience!
Suitable for children 5 and above.
★★★★ One of the funniest introductions to Shakespeare imaginable.
Sunday Telegraph
In short, it’s hilarious.
Sydney Morning Herald
★★★★½ ...an hour of rambunctious fun so clever, and so perfectly attuned to its audience, it wouldn’t surprise me if The Listies became the first children’s comedy act to win top gong at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
The Age