Performance

Venue	Barbican Centre
	Other spaces: Barbican Theatre,Barbican Hall. Guildhall School of Music and Drama Theatre, Cinema1,Cinema2,Gallery, Silk Street Theatre
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	6th December 2001
Opened	11th December 2001
To	2nd April 2002
When	Dec 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, Jan 4, 5m, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 19m, 19, Feb 13, 14m, 15, 16m, 16, 18, 19, 27, 28, Mar 1, 2m, 2, 4, 5, 15, 16m, 16, 18, 19, 28, 29, 30m, 30, Apr 1, 2 Eve 19:00, Mat 13:15
Prices	From £8.00. To £32.00.
What is currently on at Barbican Centre (V371)

Hamlet

T01421350951
Written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness - from overwhelming grief to seething rage - and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.

Author

Shakespeare

Archive :: production:T01421350951, play:S3502, venue:V371
Current production:Work

Production details

Running time approx. 3 hours 55 minutes including two intervals.

Special Performances

5 Jan 02 Open Captioned (STAGETEXT)
19 Jan 02 Audio Described
15 Feb 02 Sign Interpreted
19 Mar 02 Audio Described

Reviews

User Review: 21Dec01: Sam West is brilliant, a very believable vibrant and young Hamlet. The only down side of the production is, in my mind, the miscasting of the Irish Ophelia whoes acent is totally out of place.

User Reviews

USER: UK Theatre Web (21Dec01): Sam West is brilliant, a very believable vibrant and young Hamlet. The only down side of the production is, in my mind, the miscasting of the Irish Ophelia whoes acent is totally out of place.

Company

Company	Royal Shakespeare Company
Director	Steven Pimlott
Design	Alison Chitty
Lighting	Peter Mumford
Director	Jonathan Butterell (associate director)
Music	Jason Carr
Director	Malcolm Ranson (fight)
Sound	Matt Mackenzie
Performer	Samuel West (Hamlet)
Performer	Wayne Cater (Rosencrantz)
Performer	Alan David (Polonius / First Gravedigger)
Performer	John Dougall (Horatio)
Performer	Christopher Good (Ghost / Osric)
Performer	Sean Hannaway (Guildenstern)
Performer	Finn Caldwell (Player King)
Performer	Larry Lamb (Claudius)
Performer	Ben Meyjes (Laertes)
Performer	Kerry Condon (Ophelia)
Performer	Marty Cruickshank (Gertrude)

CORONAVIRUS: All UK venues closed on 16th March 2020, restrictions were lifted on 19th July 2021. Please note that iUKTDb archive listings between March 2020 and July 2021 may not be accurate as we did not receive details of all rescheduled and cancelled shows.