Julian Sands in The Standard Bearer;
The Théâtre National du Luxembourg (TNL) is putting on a production of The Standard Bearer by Stephen Wyatt on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 January 2018, with performances at 20:00.
Directed by Julian Sands and starring Neil Dickson, The Standard Bearer is a moving and funny one man, 50-minute play written by Stephen Wyatt about a Shakespearean actor on tour in West Africa. The performance is preceeded by a solo by Julian Sands himself.
Somewhere in West Africa in the 1980s an actor is sent out, by some cultural affairs bureaucrat, on a tour of various communities to elucidate Shakespeare for them. As his on-stage partner doesn’t show up, the trooper wrangles with the stage manager, fuzzes about his spouse, takes increasingly long sips from a bottle of “water”, mixing them with bits and bobs of the Bard. The flurry tableau of the situational mixed with Shakespeare’s words unintentionally shifts to become a more and more saturated confessional.
The Sands/Dickson team premiered The Standard Bearer first in London 2011 to sold-out audiences and then continued a critically acclaimed run in Los Angeles.
Tickets cost €25 from www.luxembourg-ticket.lu
For further information, see www.tnl.lu/event/the-standard-bearer
