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# PREVIEW: Something Rotten
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/preview-something-rotten/
- Published: 2016-05-29T09:44:56.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-29T09:44:56.000Z
- Description: Fresh from award-winning success with Glengarry Glen Ross and national press acclaim for Operation Black Antler, Robert Cohen continues his festival-season voyage into the heart of darkness with a one-man show about Hamlet’s murderous uncle.
- Author: Contributor
- Tags: Arts, In The South, News, Previews, Theatre, Brighton Fringe, Rialto Theatre

## From Glengarry to Black Antler – and now on to Elsinore and *Something Rotten*.

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Fresh from award-winning success with *Glengarry Glen Ross* and national press acclaim for *Operation Black Antler*, **Robert Cohen** continues his festival-season voyage into the heart of darkness with a one-man show about Hamlet’s murderous uncle.

A punishing schedule has found the Brighton-based actor preparing simultaneously for three shows in the run-up to the Festival and Fringe: as part of the ensemble for the Hydrocracker/Blast Theory show *Operation Black Antler*, as Aaronow in David Mamet’s *Glengarry Glen Ross*, and as King Claudius of Denmark in his own one-man show *Something Rotten*.

The hard work is now paying off. *Operation Black Antler*, an immersive exploration of police surveillance and right-wing politics, was hailed as *“serious and challenging”* by the Guardian’s **Michael Billington**, while the Rialto Theatre’s production of *Glengarry Glen Ross*, David Mamet’s darkly comic dissection of the American dream, received a highly-coveted Argus Angel award.

### *Robert Cohen fully captures the edgy neuroses of a potential loser…..*the Argus

Now, while continuing his work in Black Antler, Cohen is preparing to launch a week of shows at Sweet Waterfront, playing King Claudius of Denmark, Hamlet’s homicidal uncle, in *Something Rotten*.

Written and performed by Cohen, with direction by **Jenny Rowe**, the show presents the events of the world’s most famous play from the viewpoint of the uncle-turned-stepfather whose regicidal, fratricidal activities awaken vengeful impulses in his nephew-turned-stepson, Prince Hamlet.

Acclaimed as *“masterful”* by the Northern Echo, the show has also been hailed by the Argus as *“both entertaining and intellectually satisfying”*, while [remotegoat.com](http://remotegoat.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) spoke of Cohen’s *“enviable ability to hold an audience’s attention for a sustained period and have them hanging on his every word”.*

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**Event:** *Something Rotten*

**Where:** Jurys Inn Waterfront Hotel, King’s Rd, Brighton

**When:** Monday May 30 to Sunday, May 5, 2016

**Time:** 7.50pm

**Cost:** Tickets £8 (concs £6.50)

**To book tickets online, [click here:](https://www.brightonfringe.org/box-office/shows/view/something-rotten?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**