Something borrowed, something new

The Bard is born again in this celebrated play by John Reed that brings together some of his most famed characters for a new but no less engrossing epic. Using Shakespeare's words, Reed forms a new world around Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet and more - highlighting the power of literature's most renowned playwright and a genius that operates on yet more levels than first thought.

Directed by Jill Johnson, All The World's A Grave sees Prince Hamlet head into a bloody war against King Lear for the hand of his daughter Juliet. However, the bloodshed is just begining for as he returns home he discovers his own mother has dispatched his father in favor of King Macbeth. And what of his new bride? Is she true to him or is she, as suggested by Iago, more than a friend of Romeo? Love and tragedy once again intersect at the boundary of sanity in this novel reimagining as recommended by great Shakespearean actor Sir Ian McKellen himself.