Now Easter is behind us, you will be looking for something else to do at the weekends. Well, look no further.
Hamlet – Friday 9th May 20 2025. The last show until the Autumn to support Poynings Village Hall.
The most moving and memorable Shakespeare you’ll see this year. Not to be missed.
https://applause.org.uk/whats-on/hamlet
The careful editing of the play really brings out Hamlet’s dilemma. Seeing all the characters through one actor helps audiences deeply understand the relationships and the simple staging focusses the audience fully on the text and the story.
This version of Hamlet runs just over 100 minutes straight through. Revenge, suspicion and family intrigue light up the stage in this powerful version of perhaps Shakespeare’s most personal play.
Starring Mark Lockyer, thought by many to be one of the finest classical actors of his generation, as all the characters, this stunning new production ‘leaves the watcher utterly spellbound’ (Rufus Norris, Director Royal National Theatre of Great Britain).
Hamlet is a play about ambition, loyalty, honour and imagination. It is also about isolation, psychological torment, loneliness, and madness. Mark Lockyer (our principal Hamlet) knows too well all about those things, because for his whole adult life he has lived with – and suffered the consequences of – severe bipolar disorder, an illness that has wreaked almost unimaginable chaos in his life. But with time, creativity and patience he has recovered. And a big part of this recovery was his connection and reconnection to theatre. In acknowledging this there is a powerful message of hope that we cannot, and will not, ignore.
