Hamlet Hail to the Thief

Hamlet Hail to the Thief brings Shakespeare and Radiohead together at the Barbican Theatre in a London premiere co-created by Thom Yorke, Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett. This concentrated version of Hamlet places Elsinore inside a volatile surveillance state, where paranoia, grief and corruption drive the tragedy forward. Shakespeare’s text is fused with reworked music from Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief, performed live by actors and musicians as part of the storytelling. Radiohead are not performing in the production.