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A bewitching solo performance by Mark Lockyer, a masterclass in pacing and emotional clarity. Soliloquies that make the skin tingle’

The Guardian

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A MASTERFUL SHOW

The Play’s the Thing is an ambitious work, skillfully done. There cannot be too many performers who can make such a show work, but Laird has found one of the ones that can, Mark Lockyer is truly an excellent choice to bring her vision to life.

The Upcoming

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‘A sharply crafted bare-bones solo take on Hamlet - director Fiona Laird and heroic solo cast member Mark Lockyer are to be congratulated for presenting the Bard’s best in such audience-pleasing style. Laird deserves every accolade for wielding the surgeon’s knife so effectively. It is excellent.’

Everything Theatre

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‘Mark Lockyer’s performance is a tour de force - This is a Hamlet as a tightrope act, balancing Shakespeare with bold reinvention, a masterclass in what theatre can achieve when talent, vision, and text collide’

London Pub Theatres Magazine

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‘A Bold, Bare, and  Brilliant Solo Dive into Shakespeare’s Darkest Mind’

A Youngish Perspective

‘I cannot remember receiving Hamlet with more open ears and more abandon’

Rufus Norris, Artistic Director, National Theatre

‘This production has remarkable potential as inspiration and motivator, but also as a therapeutic tool for those that are disadvantgaed by eduction, mental illness, and societal circumstance - be it homeless or otherwise.’

Dr James Anderson retired consultant forensic psychiatrist (at HMP Belmarsh and Broadmoor Hospital)