Theatre includes: Hamlet (Barbican/Sonia Friedman) Othello (Frantic Assembly) One Night in November (Belgrade Theatre Coventry) Shawshank Redemption (West End) Measure for Measure Hamlet (Theatre Royal Plymouth/UK Tour) The Sons of York (Finborough Theatre) What the Butler Saw (Salisbury Playhouse) Tchaikovsky & the Queen of Spies (Nuffield Theatre) Watership Down (Lyric Hammersmith/UK Tour) The Taming of the Shrew (Bristol Old Vic) Speaking Like Magpies Sejanus His Fall Believe What You Will Sir Thomas More Othello Henry VIII The Merry Wives of Windsor Camino Real St Erkanwald (Royal Shakespeare Company) Billy Budd (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield) Scarlet Pimpernel (Ipswich Wolsey Theatre) Bouncers (Hull Truck Theatre Company) Wait Until Dark (Royal Theatre, Northampton). If you live or work in the Islington area you can book best available seats for £23 for the opening performances* of each productionĬlick here for more information about concessions. Top-price seat, pre-show glass of Pol Roger Brut Reserve** and souvenir programme. Post-show discussion with members of the Hamlet company with live speech-to-text transcription. The new position is intended to create a greater range of paid opportunities for creatives to develop their craft as part of a production. The Young Vic has also introduced a Jerwood assistant designer, Jida Akil, who will work with Fleischle. Hamlet’s sets and costumes are designed by Anna Fleischle. Considering her preparation for the role of Shakespeare’s troubled prince, she joked: “You get all your armour on, and your jetpack and your grenades, and you pack an extra couple of sandwiches because you might get hungry.” The production is directed by Greg Hersov, who collaborated with Jumbo on As You Like It and Pygmalion, both at Manchester’s Royal Exchange.Įarlier this year, Jumbo told the Guardian that the pandemic will have affected the tone of this Hamlet – “and will change every show that comes back on stage”. Further tickets will be available in early September. Jumbo’s Hamlet, which was first announced in 2019, sold out before it was due to open last summer.
Joseph Marcell, the British actor who played Geoffrey, the butler, opposite Will Smith in the US sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, will star as Polonius. It marks a high-profile return to theatre for the actor, who starred in plays directed by Danny Boyle and Max Stafford-Clark at the Royal Court in London and portrayed the artist Vermeer in a West End adaptation of Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring in 2008.įurther newly announced casting includes Tara Fitzgerald as Gertrude, Norah Lopez Holden as Ophelia and Jonathan Ajayi as Laertes.
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Adrian Dunbar is to join Cush Jumbo in the Young Vic theatre’s production of Hamlet which, postponed for more than a year, will open in London next month.ĭunbar, best known as Supt Ted Hastings in the BBC’s hit crime series Line of Duty, will play the dual role of Claudius and the Ghost.