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Hamlet remains one of the most powerful, unsettling, and timeless plays ever written. For over 400 years the questions it poses about what it’s like to be human are as powerful today as they have always been.In this Swan Theatre Production, Hamlet is a contemporary staging, stripping the play back to its human essence. The setting is minimalist and stark placing the focus on the characters themselves. These are not distant characters from another age, but people who are familiar, here and now. Their fears, doubts, and desires belong to us all.
Music, newly composed for this production and performed live, creates a soundscape that amplifies the intensity and atmosphere of the production.
The result is a Hamlet faithful to Shakespeare’s script and relevant to our time: a tale of a young man overwhelmed by grief, wrestling with moral choice, and searching for meaning in a collapsing world.
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The Place Theatre, Bedford, MK40 3DE Bedford, United Kingdom
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