Galleon Theatre Company, a long established independent company which has been producing internationally acclaimed and high quality theatre for over two decades, has announced that it will next stage an exquisite and epic production of one of the greatest dramas ever written in the English language.
Hamlet, written around 1601 and first performed in 1602, remains strikingly modern and relevant because of its profound psychoanalytical and philosophical questions on the meaning of life, the hereafter, death, religious scepticism, loyalty, and man's significance within the vastness of the universe.Galleon Theatre Company's atmospheric, beautifully directed, designed and acted celebration of Shakespeare‘s most loved and most often quoted of plays is set in the 1800s and within a Gothic Romantic aesthetic. Hamlet's plot, rich in evocative imagery of a restless ghost, graveyards, a skull, insanity, narcissism, and both repressed and expressed sexuality; is fittingly placed within a time characterised by scientific invention, industrial and commercial fervour, imperialism, moral severity, and Romanticism - a time of great moral, religious, social and political contradiction.Hamlet is creatively spearheaded by the hugely acclaimed director Bruce Jamieson and by award winning producer Alice de Sousa; both co-founders of Galleon Theatre Company, the Greenwich Playhouse and Galleon Films. They have over two decades, created dozens of internationally acclaimed theatre productions, delivered an unbroken legacy of high production values to the independent theatre sector and provided affordable and intelligent entertainment for thousands of people.HAMLET
by SHAKESPEARE
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