Hamlet (2022) (Rent)
The ultimate royal family crisis.
Prince Hamlet (Amaka Umeh)'s father is dead, poisoned by his uncle (Graham Abbey) who has usurped the throne and married his mother, the Queen (Maev Beaty). When the dead King's ghost appears, commanding his son to revenge his foul and most unnatural murder, Hamlet is set on a course of action that can only end in the destruction of a dynasty and his own extinction.
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Peter Pasyk
Set Designer - Patrick Lavender
Costume Designer - Michelle Bohn
Lighting Designer - Kimberly Purtell
Composer and Sound Designer - Richard Feren
Supervising Fight Director - Geoff Scovell
Movement and Intimacy Director - Alix Sideris
Amaka Umeh as Hamlet
Graham Abbey as Claudius
Maev Beaty as Gertrude
Austin Eckert as Laertes
Jakob Ehman as Horatio
Ijeoma Emesowum as Guildenstern
Andrea Rankin as Ophelia
Michael Spencer-Davis as Polonius
Norman Yeung as Rosencrantz
Hilary Adams as Player
Celia Aloma as Player Queen
isi bhakhomen as Player
David Campion as Fanfare Field Drum (onstage)
Laura Condlln as Standby Gertrude
Mary Jay as Trumpet (onstage)
Rachel Jones
Matthew Kabwe as Ghost
John Kirkpatrick as Reynaldo
Kevin Kruchkywich as Barnardo
Josue Laboucane as Francisco, Lucianus
Ngabo Nabea as Player
Janice Owens as Bass Herald Trumpet (onstage)
Anthony Santiago as Player King, Priest
Tyrone Savage as Marcellus
Assistant Director - Bryn Kennedy
Assistant Designer - Madeline Ius
Assistant Lighting Designer - Sruthi Suresan
Assistant Lighting Designer - Imogen Wilson
Assistant Sound Designer - Adam Campbell
Associate Fight Director - David Chinchilla
Assistant Fight Director - Jennifer Dzialoszynski
Fight Captain - Tyrone Savage
Vocal Captain - Andrea Rankin
Stage Manager - Brian Scott
Assistant Stage Manager - Alice Ferreyra Galliani
Assistant Stage Manager - Tiffany Fraser
Assistant Stage Manager - Maxwell T. Wilson
Production Assistant - Ciaran Brenneman
Production Stage Manager - Elizabeth McDermott
Technical Director - Robbin Cheesman
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Hamlet (2022)
The ultimate royal family crisis.
Prince Hamlet (Amaka Umeh)'s father is dead, poisoned by his uncle (Graham Abbey) who has usurped the throne and married his mother, the Queen (Maev Beaty). When the dead King's ghost appears, commanding his son to revenge his foul and most unnatural murder, Ham...
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To Be, Or Not To Be
In August 2020, this video appeared as part of CBC's "FreeUp! Emancipation Day" series, in which Black Canadian artists expressed what freedom means to them through music, poetry, performance and dance. Here, Amaka Umeh gives a powerful performance of Hamlet's most iconic scene - a soliloquy on l...