The Grin & Tonic Collection (R and J 4 Eva, H is for Hamlet & Edgar Allan Poe’s Hilariously Gruesome Tales of Mystery and Imagination)

Title: The Grin & Tonic Collection (R and J 4 Eva, H is for Hamlet & Edgar Allan Poe’s Hilariously Gruesome Tales of Mystery and Imagination)
Author: Jason Klarwein
Price: $39.95

Classics reimagined, gothic, tragedy/comedy, theater for young people, ensemble work

R and J 4 Eva

Shakespeare’s classic gets a hilarious reworking, a new ending and even some magic. Aghast at the behaviour of our Italian hero and heroine a group of feuding narrators try to make sense of teenage love and violence. Eshays fight with metre rulers and giant protractors colliding with furious principals and preppies in onesies. Why is there all this kissing and what happens when preteens decide the ending?

H is for Hamlet

Come on a guided tour through the historic halls of Kronborg Castle with your friendly Danish tour-guides Anders Anderson and Anderson Anders. A variety of dramatic genres mix with high-Shakespeare as a chorus of odd characters narrate and comment, in-between the scenes of Hamlet. From birdwatchers to ghost hunters, theatre critics to medical doctors, everyone has an opinion on the rotten smell that seems to be coming from the state of Denmark. Oh, and it ends in a fencing match!

Edgar Allan Poe’s Hilariously Gruesome Tales of Mystery and Imagination

As the orphaned children of a troupe of travelling actors, Virginia and Allan’s life has been a grim one. After losing all their relatives (including a pet cockroach called Byron) in a bizarre clowning accident, Virginia and Allan are determined to continue their family’s legacy and bring some hope to our bleak world. Hence, the cousins have decided to re-tell those cautionary tales penned by that master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. Darkly romantic, maddeningly mysterious and satirically absurd, Poe’s literary classics The Raven, Berenice and The Tell Tale Heart all get a modern reworking in this kooky-cousin sideshow. A musical experience that LOLs you through the terrors of the human soul.

R and J 4 Eva was first performed in 2019 at Brisbane State High School with the Arts Club Students and Teachers of Milton State School.

H is for Hamlet was first performed in 2015 at the Bille Brown Studio with the Queensland Theatre Young Artists Ensemble.

Edgar Allan Poe’s Hilariously Gruesome Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first performed in 2021 at Rockhampton State High School.

ISBN: 9781761611247
Publishing status: AU Dropshipping