Black Theatre Live

For the first time ever in Britain, an all-black cast present Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy.

Mark Norfolk & Jeffrey Kissoon‘s Hamlet pulses with the grief and vengeance of a young man whose world has crumbled around him and now faces among the greatest moral challenges – to kill or not to kill.

Directed by Jeffrey Kissoon, who has most notably worked for the RSC, the National Theatre, Robert Lepage, Peter Hall and in Peter Brook’s seminal production of The Mahabharata. Award-winning playwright Mark Norfolk, the inaugural winner of the Roland Rees Memorial Award, has adapted the play using Shakespeare’s text to create a fast-moving version that gets to the heart of a young man’s dilemma.

This first all-black production of Hamlet in Britain makes a very striking contribution to the Shakespeare 400 celebration.