Two-time OnComm award-winning, The Show Must Go Online, the global digital theatre movement producing live performances of the chronology of Shakespeare’s plays weekly, today announce the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed performed reading of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The streaming will be live on Wednesday 12 August, 7pm BST here.
Robert Myles directs the first grand alumni show, featuring actors who have appeared previously throughout the series including Gabriel Akamo (Laertes), Kristin Atherton (Hamlet), Michael Bertenshaw (Polonius), Ian Blackwell Rogers (Ensemble), Will Block (Ensemble), Dominic Brewer (Ensemble), Robbie Capaldi (Rosencrantz), Emily Carding (Claudius), Julia Giolzetti (Ensemble), Maryam Grace (Guildenstern), Seeta Indrani (Gertrude), Stephen Leask (Gravedigger), Doireann May White (Fortinbras), Miguel Perez (Ghost of Hamlet’s Father), Pedro Santos (Ensemble), Gabrielle Sheppard (Marcellus), Emilio Vieira (Horatio), and Tanvi Virmani (Ophelia), with Mark Laverty and Victoria Rae Sook as swings.
The cast have worked with the BBC, Barbican Centre, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe, The Public Theatre, Cunard, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre503, Audible, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Royal & Derngate, Warp Films, Stratford Festival, VAULT Festival, Canadian Stage, Shared Experience, Sacramento Theatre Co, and on the West End and Broadway.
The Show Must Go Online has established an opt-in hardship fund for all those who take part, which can be found here. Full details of The Show Must Go Online, including their previous shows, can be found here.
FULL SCHEDULE
All performances will be streamed live from 7pm BST on Wednesdays.
12 August 2020 Hamlet (1599–1601)
19 August 2020 Twelfth Night (1601)
26 August 2020 Troilus and Cressida (1600–1602)
02 September 2020 Measure for Measure (1603–1604)
09 September 2020 Othello (1603–1604)
16 September 2020 All’s Well That Ends Well (1604–1605)
23 September 2020 King Lear (1605–1606)
30 September 2020 Timon of Athens (1605–1606)
07 October 2020 Macbeth (1606)
14 October 2020 Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
21 October 2020 Coriolanus (1608)
28 October 2020 The Winter's Tale (1609–1611)
04 November 2020 Cymbeline (1610)
11 November 2020 The Tempest (1610–1611)
18 November 2020 Henry VIII (1612–1613)
