by William Shakespeare

directed by Ian Rickson
Design Jeremy Herbert
Costumes Nicky Gillibrand
Light Adam Silverman
Sound Gareth Fry
Music Stephen Warbeck
Choreography Maxine Doyle
Fight Director Kate Waters

Ophelia´s song composed by PJ Harvey


approx. 3h 30 min, incl. interval

from 28.10.2011 until 21.1.2012 (3.11.2011)(Pressnight 9.11.2011, some critics came 8.11. (technical problems))

Hamlet:                                 Michael Sheen
Guildenstern:                           Adeel Akhtar
Barnado/ Player King/ Gravedigger:      Pip Donaghy
Horatio:                                Hayley Carmichael
Marcellus:                              Callum Dixon
Ophelia:                                Vinette Robinson
Laertis:                                Benedict Wong
Polonius:                               Michael Gould
Gertrude:                               Sally Dexter
Claudius:                               James Clyde
Rosencrantz:                            Eileen Walsh
Elsinore Staff:                         Adam McNamara & Matthew Trevannion

Set in a mental asylum, with inmates doubling for the charactors Hamlet imagines this is the most radical approach to the play. Audience is let through the backstage dressed as mental asylum onto the auditorium. Hamlet take sword and cloak from a coffin before the play starts.

Audience is heavily divided over the production as one would expect.