Hamlet-Hail-to-the-Thief-2025
source-notes on a theatre production at the RSC [[ 2025 ]]
A condensed, kinetic version of Hamlet, with music from [[ Hail to the Thief ]] by [[ Radiohead ]] woven throughout it with a live band.
- Ophelia and Hamlet both young and impetuous, which is the way it should be in my opinion. Made the tragedy seem more immediate.
- Play is an all consuming meditation on grief and depression, how they stop action. Hamnet-Maggie-O-Farrell-2020 really emphasises this as well.
- Music weaves together perfectly in different moments, such as Ophelia singing Sail to the moon and the repeated refrain of 2+2=5.
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