Everyone knows the melancholy Dane. But if you see things from his point of view, Hamlet offers some useful tips for getting ...

Like many organisations, the Royal Shakespeare Company marks Great Big Green Week, an annual nationwide celebration of sustainable activities. Here associate director Elizabeth Freestone reflects on ...

Hamlet: Hail to the Thief, a co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Factory International, brings together the unlikely pairing between an early modern playwright, who wrote some four ...

Hamlet Hail to the Thief At other times, though, the musical accompaniment and its attendant choreographed sequences serve to distract from as much enhance the play and it becomes less an emotional ...

At first glance, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Radiohead’s album Hail to the Thief might seem like an unlikely pairing. But this brilliant fusion, orchestrated by Thom Yorke, is nothing ...

Hamlet Hail to the Thief is a co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Factory International, running at Aviva Studios, home to Factory International, Manchester until May 18, 2025 ...

Hamlet Hail to the Thief is a co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Factory International, running at Aviva Studios Home of Factory International, Manchester until 18 May before ...

I know the play better than I know Hail to the Thief but I heard the ghostly oscillations of Sit Down, Stand Up and – I think – the riffs of Backdrift. Hamlet sings a snatch of Scatterbrained at his ...

In Hamlet Hail to the Thief, co-directors and creators Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett collaborate with Yorke to bring its themes into dialogue with Hamlet.

Instead, Hamlet Hail to the Thief does what it says on the tin, drawing from the more obscure but still chart-topping 2003 album whose title derives from a slogan protesting George W Bush’s legitimacy ...