This is possibly the most economical production of Hamlet you are likely to find. Two actors, minimal props and a script that nods at very early quartos of Shakespeare’s play, so it is not entirely familiar.

Zimbabwean actors Denton Chikura and Tonderai Munyevu, in orange boiler suits, offer an African township version of the tragedy with music and occasional patches of dialogue in their native Shona tongue.

The production is on tour from The Watermill Theatre near Newbury, which for my money gives it impeccable credentials – quality drama and something out of the ordinary – very much in the Pound vein.

Sadly a performance scheduled for Chippenham on Friday night had to be cancelled for lack of support.

Saturday’s show at Corsham was helped by a school party, who must have found it very far from the script in their curriculum and much shorter.

Nevertheless, it was not necessary to know the story to understand what was happening.

Chikura and Munyevu devised simple methods of identifying which characters they were playing, with signature gestures and a simple announcement of the name. We soon got the hang of it.

This in itself provided elements of comedy, with which Hamlet is not otherwise over-blessed.

Both actors showed enormous talent and diligence in creating the diverse individual characters.

At one point, the two of them simply couldn’t populate the stage sufficiently and hauled reluctant volunteers from the audience, who didn’t have to do anything except stand still in the poses they were set in for the requisite scene, and they were then dismissed – so not too alarming for unintentional thespians.

The tour takes in Marlborough’s Theatre on the Hill on Saturday and the Ustinov at the Theatre Royal Bath on November 3 to 6. Catch it if you can.