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HAMLET
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Abrahamse Meyer Production in association with Artscape present • The Tragedy of • HAMLET • Prince of Denmark, as performed by the crew, aboard the Red Dragon off the east-coast of South Africa, 1608 • by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE • Creative Team: • Adaptation: Fred Abrahamse Marcel Meyer • Set Design Direction: Fred Abrahamse • Costume Design: Marcel Meyer • Original Score: Charl-Johan Lingenfelder • Lighting Design: Faheem Bardien • Cast: • Sailor 1/Francisco/Hamlet/Ghost/Lucianus/Sailor: Marcel Meyer • Sailor 2/ King Claudius / Player King: Michael Richard • Sailor 3/Bernardo/Queen Gertrude/Reynaldo/Player Queen: Tristan De Beer • Sailor 4/Horatio/Polonius: Dean Balie • Sailor 5/Laertes/Marcellus/Rosencrantz/First Player: Jeremy Richard • Sailor 6/Ophelia/Guildenstern/Grave-Digger/Osric: Matthew Baldwin • This performance was recorded at the Artscape Theatre on 11 April 2018. • About the Production: • This production of Shakespeare's HAMLET originally premiered at the 2015 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa and went on to play sell out seasons at Artscape, Theatre on the Bay, Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre in Johannesburg, the International Shakespeare Festival in Craiova, Romania as well as The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival in the USA. • The Abrahamse Meyer production takes its inspiration from one of the earliest recorded performances of Hamlet during Shakespeare’s life-time. • In 1608, off the East Coast of South Africa, the crew of the East India Ship, Red Dragon performed Hamlet aboard their ship. In his log, on 31 March 1608, Captain Keeling noted: “I invited Captain Hawkins to a fish dinner, and had Hamlet acted aboard me, which I permit to keep my people from idleness and unlawful games or sleep.” • Hamlet abounds with images of theatre, acting, actors and this production re-imagines Shakespeare most iconic play within the context of the historic performance aboard The Red Dragon as a play within a play within a play utilizing a cast of only 6 actors playing 6 Jacobean sailors who, in turn, play all the parts in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. • Local press hailed the production as a “tour de force” and “a masterpiece” while the critic for The Huffington Post stated “I thought I had seen a decent Hamlet before, but Abrahamse Meyer Production’s Hamlet made my other viewing experience seem amateur by comparison. The excellent performances, innovative interpretations of the text, and bold design choices all came together to create a transcendent production that I will not soon forget.” • About the Company: • Abrahamse Meyer Productions in one of South Africa’s only independent classical theatre companies. Founded in 2006 by Fred Abrahamse Marcel Meyer the company has gained international acclaim for their innovative productions of plays by William Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams. The company has been nominated for and won over 40 national and international theatre awards. • Click here to download a PDF of the souvenir programme: • https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zeeI...
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