Hamlet Collateral Damage
"“Denmark’s a prison? Then is the world one”"
Hamlet Act II
It was absolutely magnificent! Best thing I've seen in a long time
Audience member
Adapted and Directed by Kelly Hunter
Lighting Designer Craig West
Riverside Studios February 2024
Cast
Hamlet
Joshua Welch
Ophelia
Natasha Haward
I've come back to Hamlet to make an adaptation of this play in direct response to Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people and the continuing unjust imprisonment of Julian Assange. These modern day horrors are linked; the smiling, villainous states wreaking havoc and destruction on the innocent while the world watches on not taking action. In this adaptation Hamlet and Ophelia are together unable to offer each kindness and comfort, but instead destroying each other, both falling blindly and brutally into their friendless existences of madness.
Kelly Hunter