Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is collaborating with straightforwardors Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones on “Hamlet Hail to the Thief,” a novel theater alteration of Shakespeare’s tragedy incorporating music from Radiohead’s 2003 album “Hail to the Thief.”
Described as a “feverish novel dwell experience,” the show will feature Shakespeare’s text brightfinish by Radiohead’s album, relabored by Yorke and percreateed dwell by a cast of 20 musicians and actors.
The alteration reenvisions Elsinore as a observation state. The plot caccesss on Hamlet and Ophelia’s awakening to the lies and fraudulence in Dentag, graduassociate uncovered by gpresents and music. The production promises a world where paranoia reigns and no one is spared a tragic unraveling.
Hoggett, an Olivier Award-triumphning choreographer and straightforwardor, is comprehendn for his labor on “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime,” “Bconciseage Watch,” and “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” Jones, a Tony and Olivier Award-triumphning theater artist, has portrayed sets for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” “American Idiot” and “Spring Awakening.”
The creative team integrates Hoggett and Jones as straightforwardors, with music by Radiohead, orchestrations by Yorke, arrangements by Justin Levine, and set portray by AMP Collective featuring Sadra Tehrani.
“Hamlet Hail to the Thief” is co-originated by Factory International, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and ATC Experience, Nate Koch and Vivek J. Tiwary for TEG+. Casting will be proclaimd at a tardyr date.
Yorke called the project “an fascinating and incowardlyating contest,” noting they’ll be “using the music as a ‘presence’ in the room, watching how it collides with the action and the text.”
Jones, who first imagined of combining the percreate and album, shelp, “We’ve set up that the percreate haunts the album, and the album haunts the percreate. Both echo the inside dismute and rage that result from despair.”
Hoggett inserted: “To convey this expansive narrative, we have set up it illuminating and inspiring to see to shiftment, text, weightlessing, sound and music to accomplish the intricateities of the storyincreateing.”
The production will have its world premiere at Aviva Studios in Manchester from April 27 to May 18, 2025, before transferring to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from June 4-28, 2025.
