There's something strange in the neighbourhood of contemporary Denmark. Who are you going to call? That is the question.
In Pan Pan's purgatorial presentation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, you the audience are faced with a choice: who is going to be, or not be, Hamlet?
Actors compete to play the title role but as we enter the graveyard world of this icon of individualism can anyone escape playing the 'Great' Dane? Aren't we all the main part?
Hamlet, seen as representing the limits of human consciousness, is a man caught between the ages. He knows the old is obsolete, yet the new age has barbarian features he cannot stomach. But if he gets chosen to play the Dane, he's going to have to - funeral meats and all.
To audition or not to audition? But the real question is: how the hell are you going to learn all those lines?
Highly innovative and visually breathtaking, this is an audacious and irreverent riff on Hamlet that does not so much update or deconstruct the play as explode it.
"I ain't afraid of no ghost"
Hamlet
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“Magnificently stimulating and thought-provoking theatre in an equally devastating setting. Not to be missed.”
Emer O’Kelly, Sunday Independent
“A serious, searching work … affecting, provocative and stimulating”
Colin Murphy, Irish Independent
“Absorbing, sometimes mind-blowing … staging the audition process is ingenious”
Peter Crawley, Irish Theatre Magazine
Awards: Best Production and Best Set Design, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2010
Text: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Director: Gavin Quinn
Designer: Aedín Cosgrove
Costume and Prop Designer: Sarah Bacon
Dramaturg: Simon Doyle
Producers: Aoife White and Andrew McLellan
Photographer: Ros Kavanagh
Bringing a group?
Discounted rates are available for groups of 8 people or more. To find out how much you could save, contact our box office team on 01 8819613 or
box-office@projectartscentre.ie
The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane is presented as part of One Time, a festival of work co-curated by Project Arts Centre and Pan Pan.
One Time is presented as part of Project 50, a season of work celebrating 50 years of Project Arts Centre.
