COVER RIVERSIDE PRESENTS A SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRODUCTION SYNOPSIS THE TRAGEDY OF Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, is dead. chat about existence with a skull and Deader than MySpace. Hamlet’s gravedigger clown. As you do. Uncle Claudius has married Hamlet’s HAMLET: The next bit has more dead bodies mother, Gertrude, and is now the new than Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ King of Denmark. Hamlet is visited by film clip. Laertes (Polonius’ son and PRINCE OF SKIDMARK his father’s ghost, who tells Hamlet Ophelia’s brother) and Hamlet duel that he was murdered by Claudius – in a sword fight set up by Claudius. A BADAPTATION OF THE BARD Hamlet swears to take revenge. No Claudius gives Laertes a poisoned BY THE LISTIES one calls Ghostbusters. sword and has also brought poisoned Hamlet starts acting crazy in order to wine to offer Hamlet if Laertes fails buy time to find out if the ghost was to kill him #overkill. Hamlet’s mum CAST CREATED BY PRODUCTION MANAGER telling the truth. He focuses his crazy Gertrude drinks the poisoned wine RICHARD HIGGINS DECLAN GREENE GENEVIEVE JONES on Ophelia, his girlf, telling her to “go by mistake and dies. Laertes stabs MATT KELLY RICHARD HIGGINS STAGE MANAGER to a nunnery”, and her dad Polonius, Hamlet with the poison blade, but, COURTNEY STEWART MATT KELLY TIM BURNS the castle gossip, who he calls a before Hamlet dies, he takes the DIRECTOR TOURING STAGE MANAGER “fishmonger” #ohsnap #yaburnt. poison blade and kills Claudius and DECLAN GREENE DANIELLE IRONSIDE Laertes. Ros and Guil get killed at the Hamlet decides to stage a play in DESIGNER ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER/ London Airbnb. The stage ends up RADIO MIC TECHNICIAN which a king’s brother kills the king RENÉE MULDER looking like a Walking Dead convention KAYTLIN PETRARCA in the exact same way that the ghost LIGHTING DESIGNER and the play ends with the Norwegian VERITY HAMPSON PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHER king said he was killed (poison in the prince Fortinbras, who happened to be COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER PRUDENCE UPTON ear) and watch Claudius’ reaction. in the area, becoming king. JED PALMER During the play, Claudius has a REHEARSAL DIRECTOR tantrum and leaves, indicating he It’s as simple as that really. PAIGE RATTRAY 1 HOUR, NO INTERVAL is totes guilty. Hamlet goes to his LIGHTING REALISER THE CURRENT SEASON OF THIS mother to explain and, when he PRODUCTION PREMIERED AT EVEREST PHILIP PATERSON THEATRE, SEYMOUR CENTRE, ON 8 hears someone listening behind a VOICE & TEXT COACH JULY 2018 curtain, thinks it is Claudius and CHARMIAN GRADWELL THE PREMIERE PERFORMANCE OF stabs violently. But it isn’t Claudius, THIS PRODUCTION TOOK PLACE AT it’s Polonius! Hamlet has accidentally WHARF 1 THEATRE ON 19 JUNE 2016 killed Polonius, whoops! Ophelia is driven mad with grief at her father’s death and is then found dead, drowned in a stream. Uncle Claudius is really annoyed that Hamlet is walking around stabbing people, calling people fishmongers and investigating his guilt, and sends Hamster to England with mates Ros and Guil with a message to the English to kill him when he gets to his London Airbnb. Hamlet sees the note and switches it. Lucky. He escapes. Also, pirates have something to do with this bit. Then Hamlet returns to CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM (with ATYP), Like a Fishbone, The NEON), The Mesh (with Red Stitch) Beauty Queen of Leenane, Accidental The Midlands (with Mudlark), Death of an Anarchist, The Crucible. Dirtyland (with The Spare Room), Cut Other Theatre: Belvoir: Sami in Snake. Griffin Theatre: Heartbreak Paradise, The Blind Giant is Dancing, Hotel. Milk Crate Theatre: This House The Drover’s Wife, Faith Healer, is Mine. ATYP: Out of Place. Illyria Ruby’s Wish, Ivanov, Is this thing on?, Productions: Bronte. Carriageworks Board of Directors Small and Tired, The Business, That & Serenity Productions: Bill W and Ian Narev (Chair) Face, The Gates of Egypt. Griffin Dr Bob. NIDA: The Lieutenant of Ann Johnson (Deputy Chair) THE LISTIES COURTNEY STEWART Theatre: The Strategic Plan, The Inishmore, Blessed Are the Wild. The Hon Bruce Baird AM CO-CREATOR & PERFORMERS PERFORMER Mark Lazberger Turquoise Elephant, Literati (with Bell Positions: Associate Artistic Patrick McIntyre Shakespeare), The Bleeding Tree, Director at Queensland Theatre Heather Mitchell Long, long ago in a theatre far, far Sydney Theatre Company: debut. Music, Beached, The Bull, the Moon (2017-18); Richard Wherrett Fellow Gretel Packer away (Melbourne) Matt Kelly and Other Theatre: Belvoir: Single Asian and the Coronet of Stars, The Floating at Sydney Theatre Company (2015- Daniel Petre AO Richard Higgins met performing Female (with La Boite). QT: Macbeth. Annette Shun Wah World, The Boys, The New Electric 16); Co-founder of independent Kip Williams in a bonkers adaptation of Roald La Boite: Morsels from the Heart, Ballroom, This Year’s Ashes, And No theatre company Arthur; Resident Dahl’s The Twits directed by This is Capital City. Apocalypse More Shall We Part, The Brothers Director at Griffin Theatre (2011); children’s theatre genius Lynne Theatre: Going for Gold, Where the Size, Angela’s Kitchen, Crestfall, Way Affiliate Director at Griffin Theatre Artistic Director Ellis. Influenced by comedy duos Breath is Kept. Artslink: Three Little To Heaven, References to Salvador (2010). Awards: 2013 VCE Drama Kip Williams like Los Trios Ringbarkus, Lano and Endangered Animals. Dead Puppet Dali Make Me Hot, Dealing with Claire, Award for Best Production (Cut Executive Director Woodley, Morecambe and Wise Society: The Timely Death of Victor Family Stories: Belgrade, The Cold Snake), 2016 Matilda Award for Best Patrick McIntyre and The Mighty Boosh they formed Blott. Imaginary Theatre: Tashi. Child, Live Acts on Stage. Ensemble Production (Switzerland). Training: Director, Finance and The List Operators in 2008 and, in Brisbane Powerhouse: Soi Cowboy. Administration Theatre: Clybourne Park, Liberty NIDA. Francisca Peña 2009, made a show for kids (and LATT Children’s Theatre: Twelve Equality Fraternity, Great Falls. La their adults) called More Fun than Singing Animals, Little Dragon’s Director, Marketing and Boite: One the Bear, Blackrock, La Customer Services a Wii. It was the first kids show ever Adventure. Film: Some Kind of Voix Humaine. Darlinghurst Theatre: Nicole McPeake to be nominated for the Melbourne Wonderful. Short Film: Harm, Pipe The mystery of love and sex, Pride, Director, Private Support Comedy Festival ‘Barry’ (best show) Dream. TV: The Checkout, Jay’s Deathtrap, Every Second, Miss Julie, Danielle Heidbrink award and they toured it for two Jungle, Pani Pani. The Paris Letter, Bad Jazz, Lady Director, Partnerships years. Since then, they have gone on Windermere’s Fan, Pool (No Water), Rebecca Cuschieri to perform in venues and festivals Terrorism, Some Explicit Polaroids, Director, Technical, all around the world, taking in high- Breathing Corpses. Sydney Chamber Production and Wharf flying, glamorous locations like Renewal Opera: Fly Away Peter, In the Penal Jono Perry London, Sydney Opera House, Kuala Colony. Cre8tion: Reverie. TV: Live CHARMIAN GRADWELL Lumpur, South Korea, Edinburgh at the Basement, The Roast, The VOICE & TEXT COACH and Wollongong. And they made Crown Prince Awards. Awards: 2012 Sydney Theatre Company: some more shows: Do Compooters, Mike Walsh Fellowship. 2013 Sydney Saint Joan, Blackie Blackie Brown, Earworms, 6D (Twice as Good as 3D), Theatre Award for Best Lighting Still Point Turning, The Resistible Make U LOL, The Listies Ruin Xmas, Design (Machinal) Training: NIDA. RENÉE MULDER Rise of Arturo Ui, Lethal Indifference, Ickypedia, recorded three comedy DESIGNER albums, Drive U Crazy!, Go Bananas Top Girls, Three Sisters, Dinner, and Lollaby, and have written Sydney Theatre Company: As The Father (with MTC), Black is the two books published by Penguin, Designer: Black is the New New White, Talk, Chimerica, A Flea Ickypedia: A Dictionary of Disgusting White, The Bleeding Tree (with in Her Ear, All My Sons, Disgraced, New Words and it’s foodie based Griffin Theatre), Hamlet: Prince Hay Fever, Arcadia, The Golden sequel Ickyfoodia. Also, they won of Skidmark, Orlando, Battle of Age, King Lear, Orlando, Arms and the Sydney Critics award for best Waterloo, The Effect (with QT), the Man, The Present, Suddenly children’s show in 2013. Are you still Perplex, The Long Way Home, Dance Last Summer, After Dinner, Cyrano reading this? Wow, well done. As a Better at Parties, Mrs Warren’s de Bergerac, Children of the Sun, reward, here is our fave joke: Why did Profession, Mariage Blanc, In a Macbeth, M.Rock (with ATYP), Mojo, the baker’s hands smell? Because he Heart Beat, The Splinter, Actor on JED PALMER Perplex, Noises Off, The Long Way kneaded a poo. a Box: The Luck Child. As Costume COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER Home, Travelling North, Machinal, Designer: Saint Joan, Top Girls, Waiting for Godot, Romeo and Juliet, Sydney Theatre Company: Chimerica, Endgame, Children of the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark, Sun, Vere (Faith) (with STCSA). As Set Dead, Storm Boy (with Barking Calpurnia Descending (with Designer: Edward Gant’s Amazing Gecko Theatre), The Maids, Mrs Malthouse Theatre).Other Theatre: Feats of Loneliness (with La Boite). Warren’s Profession, Sex with As Composer/Sound Designer: As Associate Designer: Cyrano de Strangers, Under Milk Wood, Gross Sandpit/Google Creative/Adelaide Bergerac. As Design Assistant: The und Klein, Bloodland, Elling, Blood Fringe: Ghost, Toast and the Things Mysteries: Genesis. Other Theatre: Wedding, The White Guard, In the Unsaid. Sisters Grimm/MTC Neon: As Designer: Griffin Theatre: The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), The Sovereign Wife. Malthouse Bleeding Tree, The Boys, A Hoax (with Uncle Vanya, Travesties, A Streetcar DECLAN GREENE Theatre: Tame. Vitalstatistix La Boite). La Boite: As You Like It, Named Desire, The War of the Roses, CO-CREATOR & DIRECTOR Theatre: Take Up Thy Bed.