Shakespeare at the Tobacco Company: Hamlet — Performance Shakespeare 2016

Shakespeare at the Tobacco Company: Hamlet

The Tobacco Factory Theatres opened in 1998 and initiated their two-play Shakespeare at the Tobacco programme in Spring 2000 with King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The organisation encourages experimentalism and aims to offer excellent art. This year the Factory Theatre season offers a Shakespearean double-bill: Hamlet and All’s Well That Ends Well.

Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory (stf) has produced 23 more Shakespeares (several of them twice), three Chekhovs, Stoppard’s Arcadia, Middleton & Rowley’s The Changeling and Sheridan’s The School for Scandal. It has enjoyed four national tours, co-produced with the Bristol Old Vic and the University of Bristol and played a season in the Barbican’s Pit. For the last two seasons it has co-produced its Bristol seasons with Tobacco Factory Theatres, a partnership that also produced Brian Friel’s neglected play, Living Quarters, at the Factory last autumn.

The company has been widely and repeatedly admired for the clarity of its story-telling, the raw intimacy of its in-the-round style at the Tobacco Factory, and the transparent unselfishness of its ensemble.

Presented in English

Touring:
Factory Theatre, Bristol, UK: February 11- April 30, 2016
International Shakespeare Festival, Craiova, Romania: April 21, 2016
Theatre Royal, Winchester, UK: May 3-7, 2016
The Dukes, Lancaster, UK: May 10-14
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, UK May 17-21, 2016
Derby Theatre, UK: May 24-28, 2016
The Lowry, Salford, UK: June 7-11, 2016
Exeter Northcott Theatre, UK: June 14-18, 2016

Company: Tobacco Factory Theatres

Cast:
Ghost & Player King: Chris Bianchi
Polonius: Ian Barritt
Horatio: Alan Coveney
Claudius: Paul Currier
Guildernstern: Craig Fuller
Sexton: Nicky Goldie
Gertrude: Julia Hills
Rosencrantz: Joel Macey
Hamlet: Alan Mahon
Ophelia: Isabella Marshall
Laertes: Callum McIntyre
Reynaldo: Marc Geoffrey
Marcellus & Priest: John Sandeman
Barnardo / Player & Fortinbras: Laurence Varda
Player Queen: Eleanor Yates

Creative Team:
Founder and Artistic Director: Andrew Hilton
Producer: Morag Massey
Designer: Max Johns
Fight Director: John Sandeman
Composer and Sound Designer: Elizabeth Purnell
Lighting Designer: Matthew Graham

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For more information:
https://www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/hamlet/

www.stf-theatre.org.uk

Selected Review:
http://www.whatsonstage.com/bristol-theatre/reviews/hamlet-the-tobacco-factory-theatres_39750.html

Funding and Sponsorship:
Bristol City Council
Arts Council England
Garfield Weston Foundation
Esmee Fairbairn
Foyle Foundation