Two Gents Productions

No Comments »October 4th, 2011

For the first time, 37 international companies present all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 37 different languages. Two Gents Productions proudly presents Two Gentlemen of Verona in Shona.

A kaleidoscopic six weeks of shows starting on Shakespeare’s birthday April 23rd

An opening weekend of celebrations including: an adaptation of Venus and Adonis by the Isango Ensemble from South Africa, a public open day at the Globe to celebrate Shakespeare and the worlds’ languages, and Ngākau Toa’s Troilus and Cressida beginning the festival with a haka.
Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Dominic Dromgoole today announced full details of the programme for the eagerly anticipated Globe to Globe season. Visit the festival website.

Our Two Gents will be performing on Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th May 2012. Full details and bookings for our production here. How exciting.

No Comments »July 22nd, 2011

More info and online booking

No Comments »May 18th, 2011

MAGETSI!

Book tickets for MAGETSI at RICH MIX – 2nd June
Book tickets for MAGETSI at TARA ARTS – 10th & 11th June

KUPENGA KWA HAMLET
The Madness of Hamlet

Book tickets for Kupenga Kwa Hamlet at RICH MIX – 3rd June
Book tickets for Kupenga Kwa Hamlet at TARA ARTS – 7th/8th/9th June

2 Comments »April 8th, 2011

June is London Week and a UK Premier for Two Gents.

In the first week of June we will be presenting a series of performances at two London venues:

• The Rich Mix in Bethnal Green on June 2 and 3, and
• Tara Arts in Clapham on June 8 to 11.

Not only will we be performing our Shakespearean Kupenga Kwa Hamlet, we will also be offering you the UK showing of our first piece of new writing, Magetsi, the story of Diasporeans returning home; written by Denton!

Be sure to catch us now as we gear up for a big UK–wide tour for the Autumn!

In other touring news: we’ve also got an exciting week of performances up at Hull Truck Theatre this May and are back at our favorite spot on the (European) Continent: The Shakespeare Festival in Neuss, Germany on July 4. Good fun to be had for Londoners and non-Londoners alike!

No Comments »September 15th, 2010

Our new show Kupenga Kwa Hamlet (The Madness of Hamlet) is hitting a theatre near you this Autumn! First up is a tour of village halls , arts centres and regional theatres around England produced by The Watermill Theatre – CLICK HERE FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

And this November we are back in London! CLICK HERE TO BOOK tickets for the limited run (16 Nov – 4 Dec) at Oval House Theatre!

KUPENGA KWA HAMLET in association with the Watermill Theatre

In the twilight of a pre-colonial Zimbabwe, a world of unyielding beliefs and ritual, where the afterlife and the present co-exist: two young men.

The first, Hamlet, a tribal prince, confronts madness vs reason as he returns to find his father murdered, his mother incoherent and a new, dangerous chief in power.

The other, Leartes, falls victim to the new ruler as he must revenge the death of his father and that of his sister, who finds herself in the ultimate peril.

As the corpses mount, who buries who, and what danger is lurking in the wings of this small kingdom?

Two actors, two props and the convergence of two cultures are all it takes to create an urgent, poetic and spiritual re imagining of the rarely seen First Quarto of Shakespeare’s classic as the award winning Two Gents  Productions return.

No Comments »April 25th, 2010

Two Gents Productions is proud to announce the World Premiere of KUPENGA KWA HAMLET by William Shakespeare at the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA), Zimbabwe with performances on Tuesday, April 27, and Friday, April 30. After a five week intensive rehearsal process at London’s Oval House Theatre the show is now ready for a larger public!
Performances at the Shakespeare Festival in Gdansk, Poland this summer a month of touring around the UK and a week at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury are already in planning and we are working to bring our take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the Oval House Theatre for a three week run in November/December. Fingers crossed!

We look forward to keeping you posted and hope to see you at one of our performances soon!

No Comments »December 9th, 2009

It has been a mammoth tour of Vakomana VaViri Ve Zimbabwe or Two Gentlemen of Verona. Internationally we have been received enthusiastically by diverse audiences in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Germany. In the UK we have not only performed in London but also around the country in over 44 venues ranging from the impressive city theatres (how about the Contact in Manchester? Or the mighty Aberystwyth Arts Centre?) to the rural (our lucky escape before the floods hit Orton, Keswick and Cockermouth in deepest Cumbria), South to North, East to West we have done them all and have a mile-ridden battered car to show for it.

Almost five thousand people have seen this ever evolving and “seriously entertaining show” (that’s not us but the Observer on Sunday no less!). Next year, we go truly international as we base ourselves in the sunshine city that is Harare and take on Spain and Poland. Exciting, non? For now, we are feeling festive, so come and join us as we take our final bow of 2009 in the beautiful setting of the Ustinov at the Theatre Royal, Bath.

No Comments »September 17th, 2009

With generous support from the Oval House Theatre, we have just started rehearsals on our London hit Two Gentlemen of Verona or Vakomana Vaviri ve Zimbabwe. We kick off our tour on September 29 at The Watermill, Newbury where it continues through to 3rd October.

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No Comments »July 28th, 2009

Listen to Denton and Tonderai reflect on our time in Zimbabwe on the BBC World Service!

The interview includes a clip from our new play Magetsi.

The programme, entitled Zimbabwean Theatre is archived on the Editor’s Choice list.