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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents

Knight of the Burning Pestle

Drama

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By Francis Beaumont, with additional text by Ben Jonson, El Josar and Matthew Schwarz
Adapted and Directed by Marc Silberschatz

The theatre’s always there for you. And if everything gets to be too much, you can take that literally. Such is the case with The London Merchant as it’s taken over by interlopers without shame or decorum. Suddenly, this simple tale of star-crossed lovers bursts its banks.

Heroic knights!
Princesses from faraway lands!
Evil mutant barbers!

Everyone else is just trying to keep up because sometimes for things to turn out right, it all has to go wrong.

I am delighted to welcome you to our Classical Production performances.

Our students have had the unique opportunity to learn about the performance of Shakespearean texts at the Globe Theatre in London, within a tradition that is honoured by making these writings resonant to modern audiences through performance by culturally varied young actors.

Now, these self-same actors have the opportunity to experience acting in heightened English language using fresh and innovative adaptations of classical scripts, ever-popular as well as obscure, developed by their tutors, directed by them too.

These productions challenge their original literary source material so that it may speak about the way we live now, also providing unique acting opportunities for our students.

Our course this year is distinguished by having a significantly diverse, international cohort, who, performing in a lingua franca endow the production with multilayered, cultural richness.

— Rogelio Nevares, Classical and Contemporary Text Programme Leader