Hamlet

Bard in the Botanics - 10 years of Glasgow’s outdoor Shakespeare festival

Artistic director Gordon Barr on 2011 anniversary programme

27 May 2011

Artistic director Gordon Barr reminisces about ten years of Glasgow’s outdoor Shakespeare festival and looks ahead to the anniversary programme with Steve Cramer It seems a little odd that we should think of Shakespeare played outdoors as a peculiar…

Whole Lotta Hamlet at the Edinburgh Fringe 2010

Linda Marlowe's five favourite versions of Shakespeare’s text

27 Jul 2010

Director Grigori Kozintsev’s film of Hamlet Made in Soviet Russia in 1964 and starring Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Hamlet, this version is a visual masterpiece with magnificent black and white photography and a dramatic score by composer Dmitri…

Greenwich Theatre and Rapture co-production of Hamlet tours Scotland

23 Feb 2010

Scotland’s Rapture theatre company has teamed up with the Greenwich Theatre in London to create a modern, accessible take on Shakespeare’s most famous play. Rapture’s updated Hamlet is set in the contemporary Glasgow underworld, where Hamlet is caught…

Hamlet

A new energy is brought to the Shakespeare classic

12 Aug 2009

A skilfully edited script cuts Shakespeare’s tragedy down to a high-impact 75 minutes without compromising on depth or sentiment. Stylised costumes and set create a slick visual backdrop to the theme of travel and exploration while the youthful cast…

Hamlet - Byre Theatre, St Andrews, 23rd & 24th April

24 Apr 2009

Two-Day Productions in association with Mermaids and the Antony Tudor Fund On The Rocks arts festival Though a good Hamlet does not always a good Hamlet make, a bad Hamlet does (every time) do the opposite. Fortunately, Jamie Wightman, who played…

Hamlet

4 Oct 2007

The widespread belief that society is in deep moral decline is hardly unique to our age – indeed, there have been few times in history when this wasn’t a preoccupation of the public at large. What makes our society a little more unique, and renders Guy…

Hamlet - preview

20 Sep 2007

If I had a Kroner for every time someone reinvented Hamlet, I could afford a cruise to Denmark. If it’s not being set in Nazi Germany or a mental institution, the lead is being performed by – Gosh o’blood – a woman, the whole thing’s being done in the…

Hitlist - the best theatre

20 Sep 2007

Peer Gynt Dominic Hill’s last production at Dundee Rep takes on Ibsen’s classic picaresque adventure centring on a single, wasteful, very modern man. Keith Fleming leads in this epic existential caper. Dundee Rep, Mon 24 Sep–Sat 13 Oct. Rupture A…