The Play’s The Thing: A One Person Hamlet

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‘Soliloquies that make the skin tingle’

THE GUARDIAN

A MASTERFUL SHOW

The Play’s the Thing is an ambitious work, skillfully done. There cannot be too many performers who can make such a show work, but Laird has found one of the ones that can, Mark Lockyer is truly an excellent choice to bring her vision to life.

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The Upcoming

MARK LOCKYER’S PERFORMANCE IS A TOUR DE FORCE

This is a Hamlet as a tightrope act, balancing Shakespeare with bold reinvention, a masterclass in what theatre can achieve when talent, vision, and text collide’

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London Pub Theatres Magazine

‘Mark Lockyer plays all the parts in The Play’s The Thing: A One Person Hamlet at Wilton's Music Hall. If ever there was a tour de force this is one. Not to be missed ****’ Bill Russell, Reviewsgate

A sharply crafted bare-bones solo take on Hamlet - director Fiona Laird and heroic solo cast member Mark Lockyer are to be congratulated for presenting the Bard’s best in such audience-pleasing style. Laird deserves every accolade for wielding the surgeon’s knife so effectively. It is excellent.’

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Everything Theatre

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Mark Lockyer

https://ayoungishperspective.co.uk/2025/03/21/in-conversation-with-mark-lockyer/

Fiona Laird talks to Theatre Weekly about The Play’s The Thing: A One Person Hamlet at Wilton's Music Hall

“There are no ‘bells and whistles’, it’s just pure Shakespeare, and one amazing actor. It’s thrilling and compelling story-telling. You won’t have seen anything like it before”