Final yr, Hamlet Hail to the Thief—an adaptation of Shakespeare’s everlasting basic, Hamlet, set to Radiohead’s politically charged 2003 album, Hail to the Thief—made its world debut in Manchester, England. Now, after finishing an extra run on the historic Royal Shakespeare Firm, the play will get its London premiere on the Barbican Theatre from October 31 by means of January 23.
Hamlet Hail to the Thief is directed and tailored by Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett, with Thom Yorke remodeling and orchestrating Hail to the Thief songs with a forged of 20 musicians and actors. Samuel Blenkin will reprise his position as Hamlet alongside Ami Tredrea as Ophelia.
“I’m into lastly bringing Hamlet Hail to the Thief to London, and to the Barbican of all locations!” Yorke wrote in a press launch. “It’s fascinating and really unusual to me how this got here to life and the way it has labored. When it revealed itself to us over time I used to be shocked, having by no means had this sort of expertise earlier than. I’m completely satisfied for it to be seen by a wider viewers in such an intense area.”
In his overview for Pitchfork, contributor Daniel Dylan Wray famous how the play’s themes of paranoia and grief dovetailed naturally with the music’s comparable matters: “This undertaking actually doesn’t have any proper to work, or make fairly as a lot sense because it does. However it’s an absorbing, heart-racing, and thrilling manufacturing that gracefully makes use of this music to co-exist inside highly effective dramatic depictions of grief, worry, insanity, and dying.”
Learn Pitchfork’s 2025 live performance overview of Radiohead’s first present in eight years.
