Flute Theatre & English Touring Theatre to Present HAMLET, WHO'S THERE?

Flute Theatre in association with English Touring Theatre presents: Hamlet, who's there? Adapted by Kelly Hunter.

This unique Hamlet is raw, intimate and bold. RSC-actor Kelly Hunter adapts, directs and performs with Mark Quartley in this production, which tours Europe this summer, culminating at the Shakespeare Festival, Kronberg Castle, Elsinore as part of the 400th centenary Shakespeare celebrations.

This ninety-minute version features six actors, one sofa and a drum kit. It explores notions of the divided self and the transference of grief within one impossible claustrophobic night, shining a spotlight on mental health issues in our modern world.

Performances are at:

Mercury Theatre, Colchester, 15 and 16 April 2016

International Shakespeare Festival Craiova, Romania, 21 April 2016

Park Theatre, London, 24 and 25 April 2016

Neuss Globe, Germany, 13 and 14 June 2016

Kronberg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark, 8 and 9 August 2016

"Flute's brilliantly-observed, tersely contemporary Hamlet works on its audiences with visceral force. It is both compassionate and withering: an intense distillation of tragedy which makes the best-known play in world drama new for another generation."
Michael Dobson - Director, Shakespeare Institute.

At the heart of Hamlet is the unfathomable grief and questionable sanity of a young man. Even his closest family are unable to help him as he drifts away from them, revealing a perfect storm of tragedy. Our story unfolds over one night, in one house, on the evening of Hamlet's mother's wedding; by dawn only a grave-digger is left alive.

Hamlet, alone in his bedroom, is possessed by the tortured ghost of his father, rising from his own disturbed consciousness. Grief is transferred from person to person, spreading like poison through the family, and demonstrating how trauma can have wide-reaching consequences. We seek to rip open the wound at the heart of the play and explore Shakespeare's opening question: who's there?