Hamlet Hail to the Thief

Assistant to the Director


The Barbican, UK.  Royal Shakespeare Theater, UK

Orchestrations: Thom Yorke
Direction: Christine Jones, Steven Hoggett
Music: Radiohead






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Grigori Kozintsev and Iosif Shapiro’s 1964 Hamlet starring Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet.
Aki Kaurismäki’s Hamlet Goes Business, 1987, starring Kati Outinen as Ophelia.
Set model by Edward Gordon Craig for the final scene of Hamlet, Moscow Art Theatre, 1912. Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Mark Thompson’s set model for the chapel in Matthew Warchus’ 1997 production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Hamlet Set Design by Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) pioneer of the New Stagecraft movement.
1899, Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, her duel footage thought to be the earliest remnant of a Hamlet on film.


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