Radiohead’s pivotal, politically charged 2003 album, Hail to the Thief, will take a Shakespearean activate stage subsequent spring, when Thom Yorke adapts it for a brand new manufacturing of Hamlet. Titled Hamlet Hail to the Thief, the present will characteristic William Shakespeare’s textual content and the songs of Hail to the Thief, which have been reworked and orchestrated by Yorke for a forged of 20 musicians and actors.
Hamlet Hail to the Thief was tailored by director Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones, with preparations by Justin Levine. Per press supplies, the feverish piece will fuse motion, theater, and music into an all-new interpretation of the historic play. The brand new manufacturing depicts the Danish metropolis of Elsinore as a hellish surveillance state, the place paranoia a corruption plagues the reign of Prince Hamlet and Ophelia.
“That is an fascinating and intimidating problem!” Yorke stated of the undertaking in press supplies. “Adapting the unique music of Hail to The Thief for stay efficiency with the actors on stage to inform this story that’s without end being advised, utilizing its familiarity and sounds, pulling them into and out of context, seeing what chimes with the underlying grief and paranoia of Hamlet, utilizing the music as a ‘presence’ within the room, watching the way it collides with the motion and the textual content. Ghosting one towards the opposite.”
Jones added: