The Hamlet Project
THE HAMLET PROJECT, RADA, 8-13 December 2025
Mon- Fri 7.30pm
Saturday 7pm
​​Matinees Wed 2.30 & Sat 2pm
Book here
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A new RADA Residency
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A week of preview performances to pilot a new RADA Residencies programme. This new Academy initiative launches with a polyphonic production of Hamlet directed by Sinéad Rushe (Lead Acting Tutor), the first of RADA’s artist-in-residence projects that aim to bring fresh professional insight to students and audiences alike.
Trish Wadley Productions, the producer of the acclaimed sell-out productions of Othello at Riverside Studios and The Shape of Things at Park Theatre, presents this innovative new production of The Hamlet Project featuring Hamlet performed by an ensemble of three actors and live music composed by Michael Fox (Michael and Michelle).
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‘You are as good as a chorus, my lord.’
Prince Hamlet comes home to find his father dead, his place usurped and his life in crisis. Upstaged by his uncle, he no longer knows what part he’s meant to play, or how to play it.
Sinéad Rushe’s first draft of a raw new production dramatises this famous uncertainty in a striking new way by dividing the central role across a fluid ensemble of three actors. Their voices jostle, argue and diverge; unity of purpose is a fragile achievement. This approach to character also exposes the contested role of king or ruler as just a role, and shows how political power is itself a ‘play’ – a play of ruthless force and devious stagecraft.
Featuring Nina Bowers, Max Ferguson and Freddie MacBruce (collectively as Hamlet), Gretchen Egolf (Gertrude), Emma Harrison (Ophelia/Rosencrantz), Gareth Kennerley (Polonius/Laertes) and Nathaniel Martello-White (Claudius). Original music and associate direction by Michael Fox, sound design by Mike Winship, movement direction by Joeley Gibson and dramaturgy by Yael Shavit.
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Talk with actor David Harewood and Sinéad Rushe
Chaired by Mark Lawson, critic and feature writer for The Guardian, author and broadcaster.
Friday 12 December 4-5pm, GBS Theatre. Book here.
Acting masterclass with Sinéad Rushe for RADA alumni
Thursday 11 December 2-4pm, RADA.
Booking: graduates@rada.ac.uk.
Post show Q+A with cast of The Hamlet Project and Othello
Thursday 11 December, free with show ticket
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Read an interview with Sinéad about Hamlet
A Sinéad Rushe Project in collaboration with Trish Wadley Productions.
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Two weeks of research and development on The Hamlet Project in August 2024 was supported by Arts Council England, London Performance Studios, RADA and Aubin.
