Hamlet Our Brother - Jack Studio Theatre
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
HAMLET our brother, a version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet by Julia Stubbs Hughes, performed by Jeffrey Mundell, runs at the Jack Studio Theatre from Tuesday, April 5 to Saturday, April 9, 2016.
Purpose is but the slave to memory.
Hamlet the King is dead. Hamlet the Prince is dead. All are dead but one. Horatio alone survives, standing amongst the fallen.
Hamlet our brother brings Horatio, the observer to a tragedy, centre stage in this one man exploration into the aftermath of Shakespeare’s most famous play.
Julia Stubbs Hughes has taken Shakespeare’s Hamlet and using only the play’s text, recreated it into an invigorating, one-man re-imagining of the tale, told from a new perspective.
Julia Stubbs Hughes’ first play Summer, an adaptation of Edith Wharton’s ground-breaking novel, premiered at the Jack Studio Theatre in 2012 and was then published. She is currently developing her third play, a stage adaptation of Anais Nin’s short novel Stella.
Hamlet our brother is directed by Timothy Stubbs Hughes, whose previous acclaimed work has included Summer and bodies unfinished by Lewis Hetherington, also at the Jack Studio Theatre (five Off-West End nominations), a new literal translation of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard by Patrick Miles at the White Bear Theatre, and the world premiere of Philip de Gouveia’s The Six Wives of Timothy Leary at the Etcetera Theatre and Riverside Studios, London and at the Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Jeffrey Mundell is currently shooting a new British independent feature film by Callum and Andrew Burn, Our Shining Sword, in which he plays the lead, Spitfire ace Douglas Miller. The film is due for release in 2017. Mundell previously collaborated with Julia and Tim on Summer and his other theatre work in the UK includes: Touch directed by award-winning writer/director Rikki Beadle Blair, and The Colorado Session by Jessica Luxembourg.
In his native South Africa, Mundell has worked with First Physical Theatre Company on The Man Behind the Canvas and with Janet Buckland on Thuthula at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown and as part of Buckland’s company UBOM! touring across South Africa with works including Blood Will Have Blood adapted from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Produced by 20 South Street, Hamlet our brother is designed by Karl Swinyard, with lighting by Katie Nicoll and sound by Philip Matejtschuk.
Hamlet our brother is suitable for ages 14+.
Tickets: £14, £12 concessions – available from the box office on 0333 666 3366 (£1.50 fee for phone bookings only) or online at www.brockleyjack.co.uk/.
Time: 7.45pm.
Also at the Jack Studio Theatre: Lazarus Theatre Company’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle (February 23 to March 12); Helen Edmundson’s adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (March 15 to April 2); and Alan Ayckbourn’s Time of my Life (April 12 to April 30, 2016).