The Play’s The Thing: A One Person Hamlet

 

‘Mark Lockyer has absolute commitment and mastery of this timeless classic’ Rufus Norris. Artistic Director, Royal National Theatre

 

With all the characters played by one actor, stunningly simple staging, and all the language we love, we understand the play better than ever before.

 

Hamlet the tortured prince, mystified by his mother’s behaviour, grieving the death of his father and feeling the weight of responsibility to his country, tries to make sense of the world.

 

At turns ingenious, funny, poignant – and always entertaining, this Hamlet will move you and remain in your memory for a long time.

 

‘I cannot remember receiving Hamlet with more open ears and more abandon’ Rufus Norris, Artistic Director, Royal National Theatre.

 

In support of the National Youth Arts Trust

 

 

 

Fiona Laird is a director, writer, composer and lyricist of great stature. Fiona’s directing credits include The Merry Wives of Windsor at the RSC, Oh What a Lovely War, Guys and Dolls, Peter Pan and Frogs, all at the National Theatre, Stephen Fry’s Cinderella at the Old Vic her own play Beyond Belief in the West End and on Broadway, Twenty Men Singing for the Welsh National Opera, the World Premier of Arnold Wesker’s Longitude at Greenwich Theatre, Christmas Cracker at the Royal Festival Hall, and Aristophanes’ The Clouds in London, New York, Amsterdam and Delphi.

 

 

Mark Lockyer is a classical actor of considerable note, whose theatre credits include major roles in The Alchemist, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and The Taming of the Shrew all at the Royal Shakespeare company, Laertes in Hamlet at the Globe (dir. Mark Rylance), Malvolio in Twelfth Night at the Bristol Old Vic, and Good, Theatre of Blood, Bartholemew Fair, and Fuente Ovejuna at the National Theatre.

 

‘To see Hamlet through the lens of my experiences gives it a unique credence. Like Hamlet, madness was my enemy too. Hamlet never made it. And many others never make it, but I did. The least I can do is tell his story’