Hamlet! - The Musical
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16 May 2011
It’s silly, it’s sung, it’s stuffed with off-the-wall ideas and gags. Not your average Hamlet then…
Royal & Derngate picked up this little gem of eccentricity at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year and are giving it the full-scale production it so thoroughly merits.
Claiming to have rediscovered Shakespeare’s miserable tragedy as the musical comedy it was always meant to be, writers Alex Silverman, Timothy Knapman and Edward Jaspers have assembled a six-strong cast and six-strong band to create a relentlessly-paced frenzy of laughs, puns and sheer stupidity, while somehow retaining all the essential elements of the story.
Thus we get Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as a couple of puppet-sized American college brats, Laertes as the (randomly) Spanish-obsessed brother whose jealousy of Ophelia’s reputation reveals itself in a fiery tango number, and the strolling players as a jaded troupe of Bob Fosse wannabes in sequins a...
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Dave J - 29 May 2011:
Brilliant! Deserves a West End Transfer! Sat Night the sound was superb -in fact the best balance of anywhere in the West End -heard every word and not ever lost by the band's superb accompaniment. Witty, erudite and enlightening -even bringing in historical references from research. Great show - 'to be continued' I hope!...
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Royal & Derngate (Producer)
Eleanor Lloyd Productions (Producer)
Alex Sliverman (Author)
Timothy Knapman (Author)
Edward Jaspers (Author)
Ryan McBryde (Director)
Diego Pitarch (Design)
Mike Walker (Sound)
Chris Simpson (Sound)
Ben Cracknell (Lighting)
Mia Flodquist (Costume)
Andy Masey (Musical Director)
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