They go by the names GQ and JQ and claim to be “two guys who share parents and rewrite Shakespeare plays into hip-hop musical add-RAP-tations.”
They are joined in their merry endeavors by Jackson Doran, Postell Pringle and Greta Honold, and collectively they are known as QBrothers. Tonight, Oct. 22, the company will present a new work, “Q Gents,” a retelling of The Bard’s “Two Gentlemen of Verona.” The show is part of the Patten Performances series at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
In “Q Gents,” the two gents are high school football stars at Verona College Prep who get lessons in love, learning and loyalty.
Past Q Brothers performances have included “A Q Christmas Carol,” “Othello: The Remix and “Funk It Up About Nothin’.”
“Othello: The Remix” was commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London for the 2012 Globe to Globe Festival and was performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before enjoying a five-month run at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and touring Germany, South Korea, London, Poland and Sydney.
“Funk It Up About Nothin’ ” was commissioned by Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and ran at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and on toured London and Australia. “A Q Brothers’ Christmas Carol” had its official world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in winter 2014.
Their Off Broadway smash hit “The Bomb-itty of Errors,” which they co-created and starred in, has also toured around the world.
If you go
‘ What: Patten Performances presents “Q Gents”
‘ When: 7:30 p.m. today, Oct. 22
‘ Where: UTC Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine St.
‘ Admission: $15 students, $24 seniors, $29 adults
‘ Phone: 423-425-5249