Thursday 9th September

8pm

£11 (£9 concessions)

The tragical, comical, romantic and utterly scandalous history of the man who was Hamlet... not the illiterate tax-dodger of Stratford, but the real 'William Shakespeare' - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

Courtier, swordsman, adventurer and poet, his story involves murder, travel, pirates, a love-child, imprisonment in The Tower and fighting the Armada.

Hailed as the best of the secret court writers, his work suddenly stopped after the appearance of ‘Shake-speare’. So was de Vere the inspiration for Hamlet... or was he really the author?

Award-winning performer George Dillon presents his 8th solo show, with original music by Charlotte Glasson.

www.georgedillon.com