About the Show

20th April - York St John University Creative Centre Atrium 4:30pm - Introduction 5:30pm - Play Reading £5 Standard £5 Pass It On! (purchase a ticket for someone who otherwise would be unable to attend this event) Hidden in the deepest dungeon of Denmark, immediately after Hamlet’s death, Horr/atio prepares to drink the dregs of the poisoned cup. Then… comes a knock on the door. Starting at a pivotal moment for the future of Denmark, Wittenberg Revisited takes its audience through a labyrinth of mysteries surrounding the Prince and those closest to him, in order to see them in a completely new light. Like any good crime story, it revels in asking unasked questions, unpeeling layers of silence, and constructing a new history of events, with a ghost at its centre and a love that Shakespeare’s play leaves unresolved. Written by Georgi Tenev, one of the most intellectually probing Bulgarian novelists, and Ivan Dobchev, a seminal theatre director and pedagogue, the play was the 2011 jewel in the crown of the influential Theatre Laboratory Sfumato, in Sofia. In 2012, it received the national ASKEER Priz