Iago vs Hamlet

  • Rod Peter Jr.

5 STARS – Edmonton Journal, SOLD OUT Edmonton Fringe 2022, SOLD OUT Vancouver Fringe 2021

“Outrageously funny and dementedly absurd” – Beer Tent review

Fringe vets Jon Paterson (AWOL, How I Met My Mother) and Rod Peter Jr. (The War of 1812, Escape from Winnipeg) play Othello’s plotting Iago and the ghost-haunted should-be king of Elsinore, Hamlet. They have double-booked the same rehearsal space and fast become tangled up in each other’s narratives!

Frequently breaking the fourth wall into modern vernacular, noticing each other’s scheming asides and slapstick humour, Iago vs Hamlet isn’t your Grandma’s Shakespeare.

“A final minute that would have earned this five stars even if the two just read the phone book for the rest of the play.” – Edmonton Journal