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Russell Kane's Fakespeare: The Tragickal Saveings of King Nigel

Last year: a sell-out Pleasance run, then the RSC's main stage, Stratford. Kane presentsanother blank verse play: Nigellio is an Essex banker, thus utterly finishéd.'Surpasses himself!' (Sunday Times).

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Russell Kane: ‘Fakespeare: The Tragicall Saveings of King Nigel’

Russell Kane: ‘Fakespeare: The Tragicall Saveings of King Nigel’

More bard theory than he's letting on?

(4 stars)27 Aug 2009

Russell Kane’s second ‘Fakespeare’ play tells the story of Nigel, a vile Essex banker torn between his fat orange wife – ‘the Gorgon’ – and his ‘semi-chav’ secretary, Donna. Nigel also has to choose between suicide and the nefarious investment in Sudan…

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