UK & International Tour, for Dead Centre:

2018 Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow (UK) Southbank Centre (UK) Brisbane Festival (AU) Arts Emerson, Boston (USA) Warwick Arts Centre (UK)

2019 Hong Kong Arts Festival (CN) BAM, New York (USA)

About the show:

William Shakespeare had one son. He named him Hamnet. Shakespeare then left home to pursue his career in the theatre, effectively abandoning his family. In 1596, he was told that the boy - who was then eleven years old - was seriously ill. By the time Shakespeare reached Stratford, Hamnet had died.

In 1599, Shakespeare wrote a play called Hamlet.

Hamnet is too young to understand Shakespeare. We are too old to understand Hamnet.
We meet in the middle, in a theatre, in purgatory: youth reaching forward to a life it will never know, an audience reaching back to a life it has forgotten. Hamnet must be shielded from the secret of adulthood: that we don’t know what we’re doing.

Cast & Creatives:

Performed by:
Ollie West (2017-2018)
Aran Murphy (2018-2019)

Set Design  Andrew Clancy
Costume Design Grace O’Hara
Light Stephen Dodd
Video José Miguel Jiménez
Sound and Music Kevin Gleeson

Stage Manager Barbara Hughes
Production Manager Nic Ree
Trailer José Miguel Jiménez
Graphic Design Jason Booher

Text by Bush Moukarzel, Ben Kidd and William Shakespeare
Dramaturg Michael West
Direction Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd