Hamnet

T01579633386
Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets William Shakespeare, the Latin tutor. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family. When the plague steals one of their children from his loving parents, they must each confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the greatest suffering, something of extraordinary wonder is born. The story pulls back a curtain on the imagined family life of the greatest writer in the English language, William Shakespeare, his wife Agnes and their children and is a love letter to passion, birth, grief and the magic of nature.

Book by	Maggie O'Farrell
Adapted by	Lolita Chakrabarti

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Archive :: production:T01579633386, play:S01256112851, venue:V394

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Special Performances

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• 8 Nov 23 Sign Interpreted
• 16 Nov 23 Captioned
• 25 Nov 23 Audio Described

Production Changes

Previous details associated with this item and date of change.

21 Mar 23

Z:Royal Shakespeare Company, Z:Neal Street Productions, I:Erica Whyman, S:Tom Piper, K:Tom Piper, L:Prema Mehta, U:Xana, M:Oguz Kaplangi, I:Amy Ball (CDG - casting), I:Ayse Tashkiran (movement), P:Madeleine Mantock (Agnes Hathaway), P:Sarah Belcher (Joan), P:Will Brown (Burbage / Father John), P:Haydn Burke (Off-stage Understudy), P:Ajani Cabey (Hamnet / Thomas Day), P:Faye Campbell (Off-stage Understudy), P:Frankie Hastings (Eliza), P:Karl Haynes (Ned), P:Alex Jarrett (Judith), P:Hannah McPake (Jude), P:Elizabeth Rider (Mary), P:Rose Riley (Tilly / Caterina), P:Harmony Rose-Bremner (Susanna), P:Obioma Ugoala (Bartholomew), P:Tom Varey (William), P:Peter Wight (John)