directed by Robert Icke Set and costume design Hildegard Bechtler Lighting Natasha Chivers Sound Tom Gibbons Video Tal Yarden Video Associate Michaela Liakata Casting Julia Horan CDG Associate Director Daniel Raggett Resident Director Illinca Radulian Costume Supervision Laura Hunt, Claire Wardroper Ophelia´s Song/Composition Laura Marling Fight Director Kevin McCurdy Fencing Coach Fighting Fit Fencing
from 18.2.2017, press night 28.2.2017, 18.3.2017 until 8.4.2017 (+extra free shows for under 25s until 15.4.2017)
Hamlet: Andrew Scott Gertrude: Juliet Stevenson Claudius: Angus Wright Polonius: Peter Wight Laetes: Luke Thompson Horatio: Elliot Barnes-Worrell Orphelia: Jessica Brown Findlay Rosencrantz: Calum Finlay Guildenstern: Amaka Okafor Francisco / Gravedigger: Barry Aird Player Queen: Marty Cruickshank Marcellus: Joshua Higgott Reynaldo: Daniel Rabin Ghost / Player King: David Rintoul Bernardo / Player 3 / Priest: Matthew Wynn
Appearing on video Fortinbras: John MacMillan Voltimand: Lorna Brown Newscaster: Sule Rimi Young Hamlet: Samuel Smith Priest: Father Roy Pearson Reporters: Skye Bennett, Tommy Burgess, Andrew Lewis, David Tarkenter, Pippa Winslow
The director used a scene between Gertrude and Horatio from a bad Quarto to show how Horatio is giving Gertrude a letter from the returning Hamlet informing Gertrude about her husband's betrayal.
by Friedrich Schiller a new adaptation created by Robert Icke
directed by Robert Icke Set and Costume Design Hildegard Bechtler Lighting Jackie Shemesh Composition Laura Marling Sound Paul Arditti Video Tim Reid
approx. 3h 15min, incl. interval from 2.12.2016, 3.12.2016: Juliet Stevenson Mary Stuart, press night 15.12.2016 until 21.1.2017
Elizabeth: Juliet Stevenson Mary Stuart: Lia Williams
OR (decided by a toss of a coin each night (except for previews))
Elizabeth: Lia Williams Mary Stuart: Juliet Stevenson
Aubespine: Alexander Cobb Mortimer: Rudi Dharmalingam Burleigh: Vincent Franklin Davison: David Jonsson Leicester: John Light Kennedy: Carmen Munroe Melville: Eileen Nicholas Kent: Daniel Rabin Paulet: Sule Rimit Talbot: Alan Williams
Handmaidens: Katie Buchholz, Faoileann Cunningham, Leaphia Darko, Isabel Della-Porta, Catherine Dryden, Agatha Elwes, Grace Saif, Sofia Oxenham, Eleanor de Rohan, Zoe Templeman-Young, Lettice Thomas, Sarah Williams, Aimee-Lou Wood
Ivanov (Olivier, NT, 2016: Young Chekchov Season (Chichester Festival, 2015)) My Night with Reg (Donmar Warehouse, ) Children of the sun (Lyttelton, NT, )
Simon: Rory Kinnear May: Margaret Tyzak Patrick: Con O'Neill Aurek: Michael Legge Angus: Simon Gleeson Alexander: Rhashan Stone Toni: Madeleine Potter
Gay 32 year old Simon is having coffee with jewish actress neighbour May and is on his way to meet a school mate he had sex with during a school production of a Midsummer Night's Dream when he was 14. He asked an Australian wistle seller if he could come with him to buy a proper suit for the meeting, but he declined. When he meets Patrick it turned out that he had mixed up Simon with another pupil called John Hepple (now QC) who played Lysander although he slowly remember Simon's Puck. They parted with a row. A young guy in a pink shirt and coat, dragging a string of empty tin behind, is passing by. ...