HAMLET | 29 Jan - 19 Feb

'Emotionally wrenching', ★★★★ The Guardian

'Get a ticket if you possibly can', ★★★★★ LondonTheatre1

‘A wonderful evening of theatre in an amazing setting’, ★★★★ Essential Surrey

'Magnificently thrilling, thoughtful and involving', British Theatre Guide

‘A probing, compelling production’, Financial Times

'Adroitly, intelligently done', The Times

‘Fox is spellbinding’, Broadway World

'Fox excels’, The Telegraph

‘Nothing short of spectacular… Book now for this superb, five-star production’, ★★★★★ Guildford Dragon

'Exciting and stylish', ★★★★ London Living Large

Broken by his father's death, stunned by his mother's hasty remarriage, and rejected by his childhood sweetheart, Hamlet wants nothing more than to return to university and his previous life. But this is no ordinary family, and Hamlet is Prince of Denmark. The state is in turmoil. Enemy forces are on the border. The walls have ears.

And then one night, a watchman sees something terrifying. Something impossible.

Hamlet is the unforgettable story of a man trapped in a life he is desperate to leave behind, charged with fulfilling a destiny beyond his reach. Thriller, mystery and tragedy combine in Shakespeare’s masterpiece.

Olivier Award-nominated actor Freddie Fox plays Hamlet. Recently seen as Mark Thatcher in The Crown (Netflix), Tony in The Pursuit of Love (BBC1) and Jeremy Bamber in White House Farm (ITV), his theatre credits include An Ideal Husband (West End); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Crucible – for which he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award) and Edmond de Bergerac (Birmingham Rep/UK tour).

Returning to Holy Trinity Church, Guildford Shakespeare Company’s production is directed by Tom Littler (She Stoops to Conquer, All’s Well That Ends Well), and uses live music to bring this heartbreakingly beautiful and stirring tragedy to rich and glorious life.

CAST

Hamlet - FREDDIE FOX

Gertrude - KAREN ASCOE

Laertes - DANIEL BURKE

Polonius - STEFAN BEDNARCZYK

Ophelia - ROSALIND FORD

Rosencrantz - SARAH GOBRAN

Horatio - PEPTER LUNKUSE

Claudius - NOEL WHITE 

ARTISTIC TEAM

Director – TOM LITTLER

Designer – NEIL IRISH

Assistant Designer/Costume Supervisor – ANETT BLACK

Lighting Designer – MARK DYMOCK

Sound Designer – MATT EATON

Vocal Coach – STERRE MAIER

Fight Director – PHILIP D’ORLÉANS

Movement Director - JULIA CAVE

Musical Direction and Arrangements/Organist – STEFAN BEDNARCZYK

Company Stage Manager - BETH MANN