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One Hour Theatre Company, in partnership with Edge Hill University’s company-in-residence, Tenderfoot TC (www.tenderfoottheatre.co.uk), staged a rehearsed, script-development reading of Tim Prentki’s third play in OHTC’s Encounters with Shakespeare series, Empire’s Edge, or, What You Will (22 April 2024, The Winter Gardens, Liverpool 8; https:\/\/www.granby4streetsclt.co.uk\/granby-winter-garden).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The company at the Winter Gardens, after the reading of Empire’s Edge, or, What You Will (L to R) Daniel Vernon, Paul O’Hanrahan, Maria Paul, Kate Carey, Georgie Cunningham, Victor Merriman, Tim Prentki, Joseph Roberts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Prentki’s Half Measures<\/em>, drawing on scenes from Measure for Measure<\/em>, explored questions of power, sex and illegal working against a background of Russia\u2019s incipient invasion of Ukraine and the glamour of association with Liverpool FC. Lear in Brexitland<\/em> took up Shakespeare\u2019s exploration of identity and morality by investigating what it means to be English in  post-Brexit, contemporary Britain. In Empire\u2019s Edge <\/em>the focus shifts to vexed issues surrounding migration, interleaving one displaced African woman\u2019s story with fragments from Twelfth Night, Richard II<\/em>, and some sonnets in order to play with the sharp resonances of Viola\u2019s question: \u2018What country, friends, is this?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kate Carey, Daniel Vernon (Tenderfoot TC), Maria Paul, Georgie Cunningham (Tenderfoot TC), Paul O’Hanrahan, Joseph Roberts (Tenderfoot TC), prior to reading Empire’s Edge, or, What You Will, at the Winter Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The purpose of the public reading was to enable Prentki and Victor Merriman (dramaturg and director) to assess the draft script’s interaction with complex feelings about migration in Britain now. Alongside a contemporary story of human displacement, the play foregrounds ways in which such narratives are mediated, projected, and politicised. Following Twelfth Night<\/em>, Empire’s Edge <\/em>revisits Shakespeare’s playful questioning of what happens when sexual desire and power collide. OHTC plays are designed to stimulate live, public, deliberation around subjects of current significance, thereby asserting theatre’s ancient role of turning statements into questions, and providing an all-too-rare forum for live exploration of ideas and their consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Victor Merriman introduces Empire’s Edge, or, What You Will<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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