Hamlet Camp
A World Premiere Play.
Brendan Cowell, Ewen Leslie, and Toby Schmitz – three stars of Australian stage and screen – come together for the first time for the world premiere of Hamlet Camp, a night of poetry, pith and play.
The actors have been mates for years, but they are also bound together as members of a select club of former Princes. Each of them has scaled the Shakespearean summit to go head-to-skull with poor Yorick in the most coveted acting role in the business. This is the kicking off point for an evening of laughs, tears and bewilderment as they consider an actor’s life of friendship, passion, cruelty, glory and chaos.
Through an intimate, self-help slaughterhouse session of soliloquies, swords and sublime word play, they wrestle with the conundrum that being cast in the most sought-after role in the history of theatre is both a blessing and a lifelong curse.
Image by Brook Rushton.
Coarse language, strobe and references to violence and self-harm.
Track 12, Carriageworks
Approx. 90 mins runtime (no interval)
GA seating in the round.
Starring and Written By:
Brendan Cowell
Ewen Leslie
Toby Schmitz
Line Producer
Claudia Haines-Cappeau
Original Music and Sound Design
Steve Francis
Ophelia Dance Piece Choreographed and Performed by
Claudia Haines-Cappeau
MODERN CONVICT FILMS
Producers Brendan Cowell and Jonathan Duncan
Lighting Designer
Jimi Rawlings
Sound Operator
Justice Georgopoulos
Stage Manager
Bernadett Lorincz
Carrigeworks Line Producer
Tamar Kelly
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