Content warning: the next hour, James Rowland tells us, may contain traces of Shakespeare. The clue is in his title but shouldn’t all shows carry the same notice? After all, he says with a grin, they are “made in the same factory”.
Hamlet suffuses the beautifully judged Piece of Work, which begins with just that speech. You know, “lost all my mirth”, “sterile promontory”, “congregation of vapours”… But before he starts, we must wait for a wispy seed he holds in his hand to float its way down to the floor.