Hamlet
Author(s):
William Shakespeare, in a new version by Fiona Laird
Company:
Regeneration Theatre
Running time:
1h 30min approx
Writer/director Fiona Laird and actor Mark Lockyer have created a new take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This production takes all the various versions of Shakespeare’s text and condenses them into 90 minutes.
This one-person telling of the tragic story of a young man in deep grief, tormented by the treachery of his family and friends and isolated from everyone around him, is informed by the creatives’ real-life experience of the savagery that mental illness can unleash.
But this is a one-man-show that is about the play, not the actor. Seen through the prism of a single performer, the play takes on a new life and intensity. The tragic events unfold. Hamlet is powerless against the tide of selfishness and injustice, and loses his grip on reality.