Hamnet performs at London’s Garrick Theatre 30 September 2023 – 6 January 2024
The stage manufacturing of Hamnet will switch direct to London’s Garrick Theatre this autumn after promoting out forward of its world premiere on the newly restored Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon this April.
This new play based mostly on the best-selling novel by Maggie O’Farrell, tailored by award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (Life of Pi, Red Velvet, Hymn), pulls again a curtain on the story of the best author within the English language and the girl who was the fixed presence and objective of his life.
Madeleine Mantock will play Agnes (Anne) Hathaway, in her RSC debut. Madeleine made her West End stage debut in 2021 enjoying Elvira in Richard Eyre’s manufacturing of Blithe Spirit on the Harold Pinter Theatre. For TV, Madeleine not too long ago performed Macy Vaughn in CBS studios sequence Charmed and Miss Clara within the BBC’s The Long Song. Other TV credit embody The Tomorrow People (Warner Brothers), Age Before Beauty (BBC) and Into the Badlands (AMC). Madeleine’s movie credit embody Breaking Brooklyn (Montage Films), The Truth Commissioner (BBC Films) and Edge of Tomorrow (Warner Brothers).
Warwickshire,1582. Agnes (Anne) Hathaway, a pure healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn collectively by highly effective however hidden impulses, they create a life collectively and make a household.
When the plague steals 11-year-old Hamnet from his loving dad and mom, they need to every confront their loss alone. And but, out of the best struggling, one thing of extraordinary marvel is born.
Will or not it’s like &Juliet however with out the songs? Something tells me no, but it surely sounds very fascinating!