Details

A company of actors and backstage crew gather together for the first day of rehearsals. The play is Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Expectations are high. The director is passionate, persuasive and idiosyncratic. Will the show go on? Very Like a Whale examines the rehearsal room and contemplates the text of Hamlet, the blur between actors and characters' lives, the practices that push boundaries and the ones that claim to protect them. Very Like a Whale celebrates the magic of theatre, with ghosts and gravediggers, music and moonlight, vanities, calamities, awkward and shocking realities. A unique experiment from this acclaimed theatre hub, led in a collaboration by two unruly directors.

Cast/Performers

Jessica Boyd, Harry Bailey, Francisco Barradas, Oceana Bertino-Kavadellas, Leah Bonaventura, Grace Bown, Imogen Dowding, Sophie Faurie, Alfie Ford, Tom Forrest, Konstancja Kendall, Lewis Maines, Milla Olsen, Clarissa Taeuber, Freya Thomas, Eve von Elgg, Oli Wyatt

Creatives/Company

Author: William Shakespeare (with additions by the company)
Director: Trilby James