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"This is the show folk will be recommending when asked for their top EdFringe tips of 2022"

"This is the show folk will be recommending when asked for their top EdFringe tips of 2022"

"This is the show folk will be recommending when asked for their top EdFringe tips of 2022"

 "A brilliant interpretive essay on the famous play, funny, insightful, and really rather exciting, " says Get Your Coats On, in another five-star review. "Tim Marriott and Nicholas Collett  deliver each crackling line of dialogue with aplomb."


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"A theatrical joy from beginning to end, thoroughly recommended"

"This is the show folk will be recommending when asked for their top EdFringe tips of 2022"

"This is the show folk will be recommending when asked for their top EdFringe tips of 2022"

 "Full of energy, exuberance,  talent and sharp, witty repartee," says Amy Amberlez of The Reviews Hub


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"Good writing and excellent acting. A triumph!"

"This is the show folk will be recommending when asked for their top EdFringe tips of 2022"

'A love letter to the bard, a masterclass in how to bring a new dimension into a well-known tale"

"Brilliantly written by David Visick,  funny, moving and intelligent... allows our actors to prove how good they are," says the Dark Chat team of our Edinburgh run.


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'A love letter to the bard, a masterclass in how to bring a new dimension into a well-known tale"

'A love letter to the bard, a masterclass in how to bring a new dimension into a well-known tale"

'A love letter to the bard, a masterclass in how to bring a new dimension into a well-known tale"

Elise Gallagher of  Upstaged Manchester  gives us five stars. "David Visick’s script is undoubtedly the star of the show... however a good script can only truly shine with an equal performance. Marriott and Collett rise to the challenge with ease."


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'A brilliant idea... funny and poignant, witty and clever"

'A love letter to the bard, a masterclass in how to bring a new dimension into a well-known tale"

'It's a joy to see these masters of their craft work their magic"

Reviewing our Edinburgh show, Broadsides says "You will never again see Hamlet in quite the way you did!"


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'It's a joy to see these masters of their craft work their magic"

'A love letter to the bard, a masterclass in how to bring a new dimension into a well-known tale"

'It's a joy to see these masters of their craft work their magic"

"Like Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Waiting for Hamlet is about speed of execution, timing, bouncing off each other. These two veterans have all of that."

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"Absolutely superb performances by Nicholas Collett and Tim Marriott"

"Waiting for Hamlet is a fine tribute to the works of Shakespeare and theatre as a whole "

"Waiting for Hamlet is a fine tribute to the works of Shakespeare and theatre as a whole "

"The King and the Fool are destined to join Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Vladimir and Estragon, as a memorable pairing of theatrical characters"

 - Broadway World 



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"Waiting for Hamlet is a fine tribute to the works of Shakespeare and theatre as a whole "

"Waiting for Hamlet is a fine tribute to the works of Shakespeare and theatre as a whole "

"Waiting for Hamlet is a fine tribute to the works of Shakespeare and theatre as a whole "

British Theatre Guide's David Cunningham finds traces of King Lear, Richard II,  Tom Stoppard , Monty Python and Boris Johnson among the "heavyweight themes and light tone"



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"A delight... a comedy that glows from within"

"Waiting for Hamlet is a fine tribute to the works of Shakespeare and theatre as a whole "

"Amusing, profound and clever - a really enjoyable mix of Beckett’s absurdist style with Hamlet"

"Marriott and Collett shine and captivate you as these iconic characters," says Donald Stewart at Fringe Online





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"Amusing, profound and clever - a really enjoyable mix of Beckett’s absurdist style with Hamlet"

"Amusing, profound and clever - a really enjoyable mix of Beckett’s absurdist style with Hamlet"

"Amusing, profound and clever - a really enjoyable mix of Beckett’s absurdist style with Hamlet"

LouReviews praises the audio version's "textual motifs from Hamlet, Waiting for Godot and the Carry On Series"





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"A dense yet limber comedy rooted in and out of Shakespeare's lines"

"Amusing, profound and clever - a really enjoyable mix of Beckett’s absurdist style with Hamlet"

"A real homage to Shakespeare’s writing... manages to give Hamlet a whole new dimension"

Paola Teresa Grassi at Shakespearean Tales loves "this tale of a 'meta-hierarchical' friendship between opposite hats bearers"



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"A real homage to Shakespeare’s writing... manages to give Hamlet a whole new dimension"

"Amusing, profound and clever - a really enjoyable mix of Beckett’s absurdist style with Hamlet"

"A real homage to Shakespeare’s writing... manages to give Hamlet a whole new dimension"

Strat Mastoris at Fringe Review  praises  "universal themes like the nature of power and privilege, of hierarchy and of how states are governed, not to mention existence itself"

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Two characters waiting to go on stage for the biggest roles of their lives, or deaths..."

Leighton Eves talks to Waiting for Hamlet's writer David Visick about ghosts, actors and dancing words

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They said it

"a small side-sneer at the self-importance of actors..."

PETE GALLAGHER, Director of the House of Gulliver and judge of the 2018 Kenneth Branagh New Drama Writing Award at the Windsor Fringe


"This intrigued me greatly as it is clearly borne of a love for the source material and perhaps an equal love of Stoppard-esque wordsmiths! A cleverly constructed and witty take on quite a well-worn premise – that of the purgatory waiting room – it serves not only to highlight the foolishness of privilege by using the ultimate status pair of the King and the Fool, but also cocks a small side-sneer at the self-importance of actors by highlighting the disappearance of reputation as is so often seen with a decline in popularity in this media-driven age. The quest for immortality is still alive…and just as pointless as ever…unless what you are leaving behind is truly positive and beneficial to mankind. 


The cruel exposing of the frailty of the once mighty King alongside the undoubted wisdom of the ever-ridiculed Fool only serves to reinforce what we secretly know; that we can learn so much from the mouths of the innocent as they have no space for neuroses and psychobabble. Having said that, as the Fool’s argument becomes more logical and its structure takes shape as the play progresses, we realise that anything that is built on a basis of wisdom is probably worth exploring, and ultimately knowing when to let go is a valuable virtue. Knowing you are on solid ground in an argument is often enough for the wise and trying to move the unmovable can be a thankless task."

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