Galleon Theatre Co Presents HAMLET, Opens September 13

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.

The Director - BRUCE JAMIESON has directed some thirty Galleon productions and played leading roles in some sixty stage plays. As an actor, his television and film credits include: The Oxford Murders (Tornasol); Murphy's Law (Tiger Aspect); Monarch of the Glen (Ecosse); Ali G-Inda House (Universal); Roughnecks (BBC); In Suspicious Circumstances (Granada); Crime Solver (BBC); and Spongebob (BBC).

The Producer - ALICE DE SOUSA - is a multi-award winning writer, producer and actress and has created over seventy stage productions; played leading roles in some thirty plays; written numerous stage and screen scripts; won in 2009 two awards including the Portuguese government's ‘Premio de Talento'; in 2004 the American Biographical Institute awarded her with ‘Great Women of the 21st Century' and in 2005 as ‘Woman of the Year'. (These awards recognise the impact on society of the work of 1000 prolific women worldwide).

HAMLET
by SHAKESPEARE

Directed by Bruce Jamieson;
Produced by Alice de Sousa;
Presented by Galleon Theatre Company Ltd.

DATES: 13th September - 9th October 2011
Tues-Sat @ 7.30pm - Sun @ 4pm

Tickets: £13, £10 (concs.)
Box Office: 020 8858 9256 - boxoffice@galleontheatre.co.uk

VENUE: GREENWICH PLAYHOUSE, Greenwich Station Forecourt, 189 Greenwich High Road LONDON SE10 8JA
www.galleontheatre.co.uk

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