At first I was told I wasn't allowed to work with specific children but eventually I convinced them to give it a try and the results were astounding.
To date Flute has created three productions; The Tempest, for children with autism; Hamlet, who's there?, and a new version of Twelfth Night.
It premiered at the Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival on 4 August 2015 and is produced in conjunction with English Touring Theatre;[5] it features Kelly Hunter as Gertrude and Greg Hicks as Claudius[6] in an intimate and contemporary production[7] which condenses the action of Hamlet into one evening in a 90-minute play featuring just six actors.
[3][8] Adapted from the original by Hunter, in 2016 the play was performed during an international tour[9] which included the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, the International Shakespeare Festival in Craiova, the Park Theatre in London, Clasicos en Alcala in Spain, the Globe Neuss in Germany and Elsinore Castle.
made its West End premiere at Trafalgar Studios 2 in December 2016 in a co-production with English Touring Theatre.