Shakespeare will meet Radiohead in a brand new stage manufacturing of “Hamlet” attributable to premiere subsequent yr, set to a reworked model of the band’s “Hail to the Thief” album.
Alternative rockers Radiohead had a string of best-selling singles within the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s together with “Creep”, “Paranoid Android” and “No Surprises”.
Frontman Thom Yorke’s lyrics for the 2003 album have been initially a response to the election of George W Bush as U.S. president and his “war on terror” that adopted the September 11 assaults.
The singer-songwriter is deconstructing and remodeling the album for the manufacturing, which will likely be carried out by a solid of some 20 musicians and actors.
Yorke, who’s working with Tony- and Olivier award-winning designer Christine Jones and director Steven Hoggett, mentioned in a press release it was an “interesting and intimidating challenge”.
“For years I’ve wanted to see the play and album collide in a piece of theatre; eventually I shared the idea with Thom, who was intrigued,” mentioned Jones, who conceptualised the concept.
She had been struck by the “uncanny reverberances between the (Hamlet) text and the album”, she mentioned.
“We’ve found that the play haunts the album, and the album haunts the play.”
Radiohead, comprising former college pals Yorke, brothers Jonny and Colin Greenwood, and Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway, shaped in Oxfordshire, southern England, in 1985.
“Creep” was their 1992 debut single and stays their most profitable, with over a billion views on YouTube.
By 2011, they’d bought greater than 30 million albums worldwide.
The band, which has additionally campaigned passionately for environmental causes, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.
“Hamlet Hail To The Thief” will stage its world premiere in Manchester, northwestern England, in April 2025 earlier than transferring to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon in June.
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