Thom Yorke's Shakespeare Meets Radiohead 'Hamlet Hail To The Thief' Play to Launch in London
Thom Yorke reworks Radiohead songs for a live production with 20 musicians and actors, extending Shakespeare’s text through the album’s dystopian themes.
- The stage play 'Hamlet Hail to the Thief' will premiere at London's Barbican Theatre on October 31, 2026, running through January 23, 2027, as a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy set to Radiohead's 2003 album.
- Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke co-created the production with directors Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett, reworking the band's 2003 album to underscore the play's dystopian themes of surveillance and corruption in Denmark.
- Actor Samuel Blenkin will reprise his role as Hamlet, starring alongside Ami Tredrea as Ophelia, following the production's successful runs at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Manchester's Aviva Studios.
- Tickets for the Barbican performances go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. on June 26, with the show featuring a live cast of over 20 musicians and actors performing the adapted music.
- Yorke stated he is "happy for it to be seen by a wider audience" in such an intense space, while Jones added that bringing the "brutal play" into the Barbican's brutalist setting "seems fated.
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Thom Yorke's Shakespeare meets Radiohead 'Hamlet Hail To The Thief' play to launch in London
Thom Yorke’s Shakespeare-meets-Radiohead stage play Hamlet Hail To The Thief is heading to London later this year. READ MORE: Check out these behind-the-scenes photos from Thom Yorke’s new ‘Hamlet Hail To The Thief’ production The show is based on Radiohead’s 2003 album ‘Hail To The Thief’ and came about as a collaboration between Yorke and the Tony and Olivier Award-winning directors Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones. It is a contemporary ada…
Hamlet Hail To The Thief Lands At The Barbican
Thom Yorke’s reimagining of Radiohead’s Hail To The Thief and Shakespeare’s Hamlet will make its London premiere at the Barbican Theatre following sold-out seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Factory International. by Paul Cashmere Hamlet Hail To The Thief, the ambitious stage production that fuses William Shakespeare’s Hamlet with Radiohead’s landmark 2003 album Hail To The Thief, will open at London’s Barbican Theatre on 31 October …
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