Two Fools

‘Two Fools’ sees two of Shakespeare’s Fools meet on The Bridge over the Drina.

One Fool, Lear’s Fool, has come to jump, the other Dogsberry has come to make a leap of faith, as represented in the Tarot. What follows is a discourse on the fool in theatre, religion and the fool in a society run by fools.

However, this is a story with dark undertones, as the Drina Bridge was notorious during the Balkan Wars as a place of mass execution. It transpires that this is no chance meeting and Dogberry is the secret policeman both in art and reality.

A pact is made and a challenge set. This absurd play has overtones of Godot and yet also plays homage to the great British tradition of comedy double acts of the straight man and comic.