REVIEW: Hammerhead, Pulse Festival, New Wolsey Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Joseph Morpurgo in Hammerhead at Pulse Festival

Paul T Davies reviews Joseph Morpurgo’s Hammerhead at Pulse Festival at the New Wolsey Theatre Hammerhead. Pulse Festival at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. 9 June 2018 4 Stars Pulse Festival Information Joseph Morpurgo presents his one man masterpiece, a boundary-smashing 9 hour adaptation of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, in which he plays all the characters. Well, not quite. We join him at the Q and A after the show; he hasn’t even had time to remove his stage make up before he humbly appears before us to take our questions- both from the live audience and the “millions” tuning in via social media. It’s a high energy, hilarious and hugely enjoyable performance of vanity and denial, taking the piss perfectly out of acting and actor’s methods. The questions from the audience are perfectly planted, and signpost the way effectively through the Q and A as Morpurgo’s denial crumbles and his … Read more