WHAT would be the death toll if you were to pile up all the bodies from Shakespeare's works?

The answer is 74, or 75 should you "count the ill-favoured fly killed in Titus Andronicus," says clowning company Spymonkey, whose darkly humorous tribute to the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death finds them conducting a theatrical post-mortem into all that stage carnage.

In The Complete Deaths Of Shakespeare, the cast of Aitor Basauri, Stephan Kreiss, Petra Massey and Toby Park will re-create every death, "sometimes lingeringly, sometimes messily, sometimes movingly, sometimes musically", and always humorously at Hull Truck Theatre from tonight until Saturday.

The shuffles off this mortal coil on stage range from the Roman suicides in Julius Caesar to the death fall of Prince Arthur in King John; from the bloodbath at the end of Hamlet to snakes in a basket in Antony & Cleopatra; from Pyramus and Thisbe to young Macduff.

"There are countless stabbings, plenty of severed heads, some poisonings, two mobbings and a smothering," says Spymonkey. "Enorbarbus just sits in a ditch and dies from grief. And then there’s the pie that Titus serves the Queen of the Goths."

Presented in a co-production with Brighton Festival and the Royal & Derngate theatres in Northampton, The Complete Deaths Of Shakespeare is directed by playwright Tim Crouch and designed by Spymonkey regular Lucy Bradridge, topped off with music by Toby Park.

Performances start at dead on 7.30pm plus a 2pm Saturday matinee; tickets for the Bard's body count are on sale at hulltruck.co.uk or on 01482 323638; the show is suitable for age 14 upwards.