Radiohead collaborates with a new production of “ Hamlet », expected for spring 2025.
Radiohead enters the theater. The room Hamlet Hail to the Thief, adapted and directed by Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett, will feature reworked music from Radiohead's 2003 album, Hail to the Thief.
The production will open at Aviva Studios, Manchester from April 27 to May 18, 2025 before transferring to the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford Upon Avon, from June 4 to 28, 2025.
A press release states that in this “ rapid distillation of the play, Shakespeare's words and Radiohead's album illuminate each other in a new way, the music becoming an essential element of the narrative “. Personally reworked by Thom Yorke, the leader of Radiohead, the deconstructed album will be performed on stage by around twenty musicians and actors.
In the adaptation, Elsinore, Hamlet's city, has become a police state that sheds the blood of its citizens. Hamlet Hail To The Thief will focus on “ Hamlet and Ophelia's discovery of Denmark's lies and corruption, gradually revealed through ghosts and music. Paranoia reigns and no one is spared from a tragic outcome. »
