Hamlet

T0545031798
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

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Archive :: production:T0545031798, play:S3502, venue:V720
Current production:Work

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Production details

An urgent, poetic and spiritual re-imagining of the rarely seen First Quarto of Shakespeare's classic, as the award-winning Two Gents return following last year's Magetsi. Set in the twilight of a pre-colonial Zimbabwe, a world of unyielding beliefs and ritual, where the afterlife and the present co-exist. As the corpses mount, who buries who, and what danger is lurking in the wings of this small kingdom? Studio