Nominated for the WhatsOnStage Awards 2024 for Best New Play
Experience the Royal Shakespeare Company’s hotly anticipated world premiere production of Maggie O’Farrell’s HAMNET now playing at London’s Garrick Theatre for a limited season until 17 February 2024, following a sell-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.
She’s like no one I’ve ever met… She’s like fire and water all at once.’
Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling book and adapted by award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (Life of Pi, Red Velvet, Hymn), HAMNET pulls back a curtain on the story of the greatest writer in the English language and the woman who was the constant presence and purpose of his life.
Directed by Erica Whyman, with Set Design by Tom Piper, Lighting by Prema Mehta, Sound by Simon Baker, Music by Oğuz Kaplangi, Movement by Ayse Tashkiran, Fights by Kate Waters and Casting by Amy Ball CDG, HAMNET is a love letter to passion, birth, grief and the magic of nature.
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Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family.
When the plague steals 11-year-old Hamnet from his loving parents, they must each confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the greatest suffering, something of extraordinary wonder is born.
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2 hours 30 minutes, including a 20 minute interval
Ajani Cabey (Hamnet/Thomas Day), Sarah Belcher (Joan), Will Brown (Burbage/Father John), Frankie Hastings (Eliza), Karl Haynes (Ned), Alex Jarrett (Judith), Madeline Mantock (Agnes), Hannah McPake (Jude), Elizabeth Rider (Mary), Rose Riley (Tilly/Caterina), Harmony Rose-Bremner (Susanna), Obioma Ugoala (Bartholomew), Tom Varey (William), Peter Wright (John), Haydn Burke (Off-Stage Understudy), Faye Campbell (Off-Stage Understudy)
Erica Whyman (Director), Tom Piper (Designer), Prema Mehta (Lighting), Oguz Kaplangi (Music), Amy Ball CDG (Casting), Ayse Tashkiran (Movement), Kate Waters (Fights)
'Elegant and beguiling'
'The evening soars and sears'
'Chakrabarti’s tender stage adaptation of O’Farrell’s heartbreaking novel’'
