Direct from a sell-out season in Melbourne, Bell Shakespeare’s critically acclaimed new production of Hamlet open its doors Tuesday 13 October at the Canberra Theatre.
Welcome to Elsinore, a place threatened by secret tyranny where no one is safe from prying eyes and eavesdropping. All are under constant surveillance.
Hamlet is a detailed family portrait in the political landscape of a “rotten” Denmark, a country furiously preparing for war, not realising that the enemy lies within.
Hamlet is a young man thrust into an unfamiliar role in a story he never expected to tell. Tormented by indecision and haunted by his mother’s perceived crime, he is a mass of contradictions and a modern anti-hero. He knows that dark acts result in darker consequences and there is little that’s darker than the act of revenge.
Off the back of directing the critically acclaimed, award winning Henry V in 2014, Damien Ryan will deliver a new production of Hamlet, one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.
Anguish, passion and desperation collide in this telling of Hamlet.
