Hamlet | Director’s Perspective from Rehearsal to Production - CAPTIONED

Award-winning director Yaël Farber heads the exciting creative behind The Gate Theatre’s 2018 production of Hamlet. Oscar-nominated Irish actress, Ruth Negga, makes her Gate stage debut in the title role of Hamlet, joined by a cast of Ireland’s finest actors. Hamlet is one of the most revived Shakespeare plays in the Gate’s 90 year history (1928-2018). In celebration of the theatre’s pioneering founders, Hilton Edwards and Micheál Mac Liammóir, Shakespeare’s iconic story of politics, vengeance, madness and murder is reimagined in a ground-breaking, visionary Gate Theatre production for today’s audience. Cast includes: Fiona Bell, Gavin Drea, Aoife Duffin, Nick Dunning, Peter Gaynor, Steve Hartland, Mark Huberman, Will Irvine, Gerard Kelly, Barry McKiernan, Ruth Negga, Shane O’Reilly, Owen Roe, Gerard Walsh To watch or share an uncaptioned version of this video, please see: Director Yaël Farber Set & Costume Designer Susan Hilferty Lighting Designer Paul Keogan Sound Designer Tom Lane Movement Director Muirne Bloomer Voice Director Andrea Ainsworth Associate Director Marc Atkinson Text Edit Yaël Farber Textual Advisor Ben Power Associate Costume Designer Orla Long Assistant Director Romana Testasecca