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Who knew that the world needed a mashup of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy and Radiohead’s angry response to George W Bush’s 2003 election victory? But it turns out we very much do. For this bonkers, extraordinary event, play and album have been smashed into one another by co-creators Christine Jones, Steven Hoggett and the band’s frontman and creative driver Thom Yorke.
The resulting fragments have been brutally sieved, the grist fused into an urgent, frantic 100-minute work that’s part drama, part dance piece and part gig. That it’s opened in Factory International’s cavernous Aviva Studios in Manchester before visiting the Royal Shakespeare Company’s main stage in Stratford-upon-Avon adds to the peculiar, cool energy. (There are no London dates – yet.)
