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The band’s frontman, Thom Yorke, created a show with the Royal Shakespeare Company that is both admirably ambitious and a ...
It makes sense to link Thom Yorke’s music and the Bard’s tragedy – but this hurtling experiment only occasionally flares into ...
SHAKESPEARE and Radiohead meet on the RSC stage next month. Thom Yorke, frontman of the acclaimed rock band, has teamed-up ...
The play’s not really the thing in Aviva Studios’ Hamlet Hail to the Thief, which uneasily fuses Shakespeare’s tragedy with Radiohead’s 2003 album. The join is about as seamless as the ...
The Royal Shakespeare Company and Factory International co-production features music by the award-winning band ...
Louis Fowler unpacks a propulsive staging of Hamlet, driven by the music of Radiohead and charged with new intensity.
With Thom Yorke on board as a creative, this project mashes up the best Shakespeare play and the fourth best Radiohead album ...
There can be few young misfits who haven’t identified with the brooding melancholy, loneliness and madness of Hamlet.
I know the play better than I know Hail to the Thief but I heard the ghostly oscillations of Sit Down, Stand Up and – I think – the riffs of Backdrift. Hamlet sings a snatch of Scatterbrained ...
Stand Up” blasts while bodies drop dead on the stage. The play’s the thing when you fuse Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief and stage it as: Hamlet to the Thief. Adapted and ...
A reworked score of Radiohead’s sixth album backs an adaptation that even Shakespeare’s great tragedy has never seen the ...
Technically spectacular, Radiohead’s 2003 concept album ... embodied the period’s spiralling sense of panic. In Hamlet Hail to the Thief, co-directors and creators Christine Jones and Steven ...