By Press Release
By Maureen Sullivan
After selling out – with a waiting list – for their open-air performances in June, Ad Lib Theatre is bringing their production of Hamlet back to a new indoor Island venue.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark …
The recently-widowed Queen Gertrude is marrying her dead husband’s brother, Claudius, while her son, Hamlet, looks on with melancholy. Powerless – or so he thinks. The arrival of Hamlet’s best friend, Horatio, with news about his father, soon sets our prince on a journey of revenge, love, madness, piracy, betrayal and wonder, with far-reaching consequences for all.
Director, Simon Lynch, said: “I have had so many people come to me and share that they ‘got it’. They thought that Hamlet, indeed Shakespeare, was inaccessible, but they were able to access and enjoy. This was one of my aims: for people to love Shakespeare as much as I do.
“So much makes this production special beyond the play itself: the chemistry of the cast, the sheer talent, and the strength of the cast’s performances – there are no insignificant roles. It is unfair to single out individuals, but Emily Scotcher’s turn, as Hamlet, is breathtaking; she is Hamlet, she is able to take the audience with her; they get what Hamlet is about.”
Hamlet is playing at The Jenny Kerry Performing Arts Centre in Ryde School next Saturday, November 5, at 2:30pm and 7:30pm.
Tickets are just £8 each from ticketsource.co.uk/ad-lib-theatre.
So take along your friends and family, pack your sense of humour and some tissues, and join Ad Lib theatre as they return – one last time – to the Court of Elsinore.