Hamlet

Export event | Export network | Feedback | Print
Event Hamlet
Venue Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, VIC
First Date 28 April 2022
Last Date 14 May 2022
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Part of a Tour Yes
Description Inside the glamorous court of Denmark in the 1960s, a family is torn apart by murder and betrayal. Outside, a country is threatened by Norway. And at the centre of this struggle is a man brimming with anguish.

Hamlet is a portrait of a young man struggling with the death of his father, his mother’s hasty remarriage to his uncle, and the vision of his father’s ghost looming in his mind’s eye. Featuring Harriet Gordon-Anderson as a young man experiencing grief in its most complex and profound state, this is a Hamlet for our time.

It’s a story of revenge, passion and deception, where human
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Classical
Theatre
Subjects Shakespeare
Related Events
  • Is tour of Hamlet , Playhouse (Sydney Opera House), Sydney, NSW, 4 March 2022
  • Is part of tour Hamlet , Canberra Theatre Centre, Canberra, ACT, 7 April 2022
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Lucy Bell Actor Gertrude
Rebecca Bower Actor Understudy
Jeremi Campese Actor Rosenkrantz / Marcellus
Eleni Cassimatis Actor Player Queen / Second Grave Digger / Osric
Ray Chong Nee Actor Claudius
Jack Crumlin Actor Laertes / Player
Emma Diaz Actor Understudy
James Evans Actor Ghost / Player King / Grave Digger
Harriet Gordon-Anderson Actor Hamlet
Michael Howlett Actor Understudy
James Lugton Actor Understudy
Jane Mahady Actor Guildenstern / Barnardo
Robert Menzies Actor Polonius
Rose Riley Actor Ophelia
Tom Royce-Hampton Actor Understudy
Jacob Warner Actor Horatio
Peter Evans Director Director
James Evans Dramaturg/e Dramaturg
Nigel Poulton Fight Director Fight Director
Nigel Poulton Intimacy Coordinator Intimacy Co-ordinator
Benjamin Cisterne Lighting Designer Lighting Designer
Anna Tregloan Production Designer Designer
Max Lyandvert Sound Composer Composer
Max Lyandvert Sound Designer Sound Designer
Laura Jane Turner Video Designer Video Designer
Jess Chambers Voice Coach Voice & Dialect Coach
Works
Text Nationality England
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web https://www.bellshakespeare.com.au
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 162980