2011 - HAMLET

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Hamlet is over for this year.

Here are some pictures and comments from the audience to remember it by.

Swear!

"Worked really well in the 1920s. That was a good idea."

Hamlet suffers the disappointment of being kept back from school

"Hamlet should have taken a second bow, I wanted to wolf whistle him."

Over the top

"Better than the one at the Globe I saw two months ago."

Newly weds

"It must have been good, I don't know Shakespeare and I understood it."

The young court

"Did you say an amateur group? You mean NONE of them are professional?"

Hamlet hears it from the ghost

"Real day jobs? and they worked this week?"

Ophelia hears it from Polonius

"Brilliant, absolutely brilliant, please let them know."

Ophelia hears it from Laertes

"Best one you've done."

The serious business of making graves

"The toilets are better here than at Hazelbury."

Alas poor Yorrick, I knew him, Horatio

"I hope they didn't get too cold in that rain."

Fighting over Ophelia

"Perfect venue."

Fighting for honour

"We come here every year and intend to keep on coming."

Drink this you bounder

"Magnificent."

"I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul".

Hamlet is a tale of love, of murder, of corruption, of incest, of madness, of the supernatural and of course, of revenge.

Shakespeare Live breathe new life into this most enduring of plays, setting it in 1920. The Great War to end all wars is finally over and the world looks with new optimism as the old order is replaced with the loosening of class structure and morality.

Following the unexpected death of his father the King, Prince Hamlet returns home from university for the funeral, to discover his mother marrying his uncle and a ghost terrorising the castle guard. Death and lunacy stalk the halls of Elsinore in a maelstrom of political upheaval.

The director was Rod Moor-Bardell, a regular performer with Shakespeare Live and other drama groups in Bath and Wiltshire.

Contact: you can email the director at: director

 

Performance dates were Tuesday 5th to Saturday 9th July 2011.