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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke brings ‘Hamlet Hail to the Thief’ theatre show to London’s Barbican

The production sees Elsinore reimagined as a surveillance state

The Independent UK

Hamlet Hail to the Thief coming to the Barbican! How to get tickets for Radiohead's bold adaptation of Shakespeare tragedy

The production premiered at Aviva Studios in Manchester last year before running at the Royal Shakespeare theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Evening Standard

Radiohead revenge tragedy Hamlet Hail to the Thief sets London dates

Production fusing the band’s sixth album and Shakespeare’s masterpiece will open at the Barbican later this year

The Guardian - UK

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‘When the knife came up through the pool table, audiences gasped’: how Iraq war epic Black Watch conquered the world

It was the play that rocked a nation. The makers of the devastating drama, which transported audiences from a Fife pub to a war zone, recall how it grew and grew

The Guardian - UK

Hamlet Hail to the Thief at Aviva Studios Manchester review: Radiohead plus Shakespeare? Yes please

4/5 These two very different works have been fused into an urgent, frantic 100-minute work that’s part drama, part dance piece and part gig

Evening Standard

“This is an interesting and intimidating challenge!” Radiohead's Thom Yorke is reworking the band's 2003 album Hail To The Thief for a “feverish” new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Hamlet Hail To The Thief, featuring Thom Yorke's personally “deconstructed” version of Radiohead's album, will be staged next year

Louder

Hail to the Thief: Thom Yorke to soundtrack new version of Hamlet with Radiohead album

Alas, poor Yorke...

The Independent UK

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Hamlet Hail to the Thief: Thom Yorke revisits Radiohead album for Shakespeare show

Stage production in Manchester will orchestrate the band’s 2003 recording to ‘chime with the underlying grief and paranoia’ of the tragedy

The Guardian - UK

Review: ‘A Beautiful Noise’ on Broadway is the music of Neil Diamond, offering ‘Sweet Caroline’ and eternal life

NEW YORK — At their best, biographical jukebox shows like “A Beautiful Noise” dangle immortality, eight times a week. And not just for the audience.

Chicago Tribune

Perth Theatre welcomes Alan Cumming as the dancing Bard in Burn

Perthshire's Holywood actor Alan Cumming shows his writing and dance talents to a home audience who will learn about Robert Burns from a new perspective

Daily Record

Edinburgh Fringe reviews: I admire Alan Cumming, but Burn is a comprehensive failure

WHERE would the Traverse Theatre’s Edinburgh festivals programme be without Irish writers, actors and companies? The most cursory consideration of…

The National (Scotland)

Burn review – Alan Cumming is extraordinary as Scotland’s rockstar poet

Cumming’s daring evocation in movement of the life of Robert Burns goes way beyond the biscuit-tin

The Guardian - UK

Alan Cumming: ‘You’d be shocked by the messages Miriam Margolyes and I leave each other!’

As he brings his one-man show about ‘rockstar’ poet Robert Burns to the Edinburgh festival, the star talks about desire, debauchery and dancing in his 50s

The Guardian - UK

Alan Cumming takes on life of Robert Burns in solo dance-theatre performance

ACTOR, dancer, singer, writer, cabaret performer, raconteur, political activist (not least for LGBTQ+ rights and Scottish independence) – the…

The National (Scotland)

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