Key information
Friday 11 April
Corn Exchange
7.30pm, doors and bar 7pm
£16/£14 members and concession
Seated
An excavation of work and political systems through the eyes of the gravediggers in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Alas! Poor Yorick draws on David Graeber, Marx and popular culture to present a relentless critique of our institutional failings, hypocritical cultural mores and political inadequacies wrapped up in a largely silent clown show. Mashing up the serious with the silly in trademark style, Ridiculusmus meld their formative influences – The Two Ronnies, Samuel Beckett and Roy Anderson – with Shakespeare’s original text, a Stoppardian homage that metaphorically explores work, political systems and religion in an hour of slapstick, the original text and a new spin on 400-year-old jokes.
“Existential Clowning “The Guardian on “Beautiful People”
“Every laugh is like a sharp pain in the heart” Stagedoor on “Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!”
Accessibility
Dorchester Corn Exchange has wheelchair access and toilet facilities for wheelchair users. If you have any specific requirements, then please let us know when booking tickets and we are more than happy to help.
Our bar
The fully-licenced bar opens half an hour before each performance.
Booking information
Tickets can currently be purchased online or by telephone. The telephone line is manned between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday. At all other times please leave your name, telephone number and ticket requirements and we will call you back.
We are not currently able to welcome visitors for advance face-to-face ticket sales.
No booking fees are charged, but a £1 Future Fund levy is included in most ticket prices to support our work. This levy is included in the published ticket price. Concessionary prices (for events promoted by Dorchester Arts): where available, these are offered to under 18s, students, those in receipt of benefits and people on low income regardless of age.
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