Hamlet presented by Bell Shakespeare tickets
About Hamlet
Peter Evans’ critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet returns in 2022.
Inside the glamorous court of Denmark in the 1960s, a family is torn apart by murder and betrayal. Outside, a country is threatened by Norway. And at the centre of this struggle is a man brimming with anguish.
Hamlet is a portrait of a young man struggling with the death of his father, his mother’s hasty remarriage to his uncle, and the vision of his father’s ghost looming in his mind’s eye. Featuring Harriet Gordon-Anderson as a young man experiencing grief in its most complex and profound state, this is a Hamlet for our time.
It’s a story of revenge, passion and deception, where human desire for retribution quickly becomes a burden. Set against a classically timeless backdrop, family turns on family, friendships disintegrate and the ghost of his father pushes Hamlet’s entire world to its brink.
To be or not to be. That is the question.
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Run time
2hrs 50min (inc interval)
Categories
Start date
4th March, 2022
End date
2nd April, 2022
Venue
The Playhouse | Sydney Opera House
Accessibility
Step-free access with lifts and wheelchair seating, accessible bathrooms across multiple levels, assistive listening, captioned and audio-described performances, and registered service animals are welcome throughout the Sydney Opera House.
Directions
BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT: The Sydney Opera House is short six-minute walk from Circular Quay, with frequent trains, buses and ferries. An accessible shuttle also operates between Circular Quay and the venue for those who require assistance.
BY BICYCLE: Bike parking is available beneath the Monumental Steps.
BY CAR: Parking is available at Wilson Parking Sydney Opera House Car Park, open 24/7 with undercover access to the Lower Concourse. Accessible parking spaces are also available on site.
More information about Hamlet
"An unmissable triumph" - The Australian
"★★★★½ This is what Shakespeare should be" - Sydney Morning Herald
"★★★★★ Bell Shakespeare's Hamlet is an unmissable experience" - The Music
Director: Peter Evans
CAST:
Hamlet: Harriet Gordon Anderson
Gertrude: Lucy Bell
Rosencrantz/ Marcellus: Jeremi Campese
Laertes / Player: Jack Crumlin
Horatio: James Evans
Player Queen / Second/Gravedigger / Osric: Melisa Kahraman
Guildenstern / Bernardo: Jane Mahady
Polonius: Robert Menzies
Ophelia: Rose Riley
DID YOU KNOW?
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The character of Hamlet has the most lines of any character in all of Shakespeare’s plays. Hamlet is also Shakespeare’s longest play.
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William Shakespeare was an actor, not just a playwright, and it is thought that he played the Ghost of old Hamlet in the original production of this play.
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There are two authoritative published versions of Hamlet – the Second Quarto (published during Shakespeare’s lifetime) and the version printed in the posthumous First Folio. Each contains passages that do not appear in the other. If you did a production of Hamlet that included all of the lines from both versions, the play would run at over four hours.
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Hamlet is filled with phrases that have been adapted and adopted into our modern vernacular, so much so that many think of them as cliches. Phrases that have been lifted from Hamlet include “cruel to be kind”, “method in the madness”, “murder most foul” and “neither a borrower nor a lender be”.
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