The Barbican's Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch - how to get £10 tickets
SONIA Friedman Productions, in partnership with Sky Arts, has allocated 100 £10 tickets, spread throughout the auditorium, for every performance of Lyndsey Turner’s production of Hamlet.
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, it runs at the Barbican Theatre from August 25 (previews from August 5) to October 31, 2015.
Sixty of the Sky Arts £10 tickets will be sold in advance via the Barbican website in an on-line ticket ballot and 30 will be available each day as day-seats. The final 10 will be sold via a select number of charities who work with under-privileged young people. In total, there will be over 8,500 £10 seats made available for this production during the run.
From 10am today (Friday, May 29) and until 10am on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, the general public will have the opportunity to enter the lottery ticket ballot by visiting hamlet.barbican.org.uk/ to apply for up to two tickets. On Friday, June 19, 2015, the successful applicants will be notified by email with further information about how to purchase their winning tickets from Monday, June 22 onwards.
In addition, from time to time, small numbers of tickets in other price bands will be released for advance sale online, please visit hamlet-barbican.com/ for up-to-date information.
Phil Edgar-Jones, Director of Sky Arts, said: “We are delighted to be supporting this fantastic scheme with Sonia Friedman Productions. At Sky Arts we firmly believe that the Arts should be accessible to everyone – and it is wonderful that this hotly anticipated production of Hamlet will be open for so many more people to share.”
The Hamlet cast also includes Leo Bill as Horatio, Sian Brooke as Ophelia, Anastasia Hille as Gertrude, Ciarán Hinds as Claudius, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Laertes and Jim Norton as Polonius. Read more.
Full casting will be announced soon.
In Hamlet, a country is arming itself for war while a family is tearing itself apart. Forced to revenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
Hamlet will be broadcast to cinemas around the world on Thursday, October 15, 2015 as part of National Theatre Live.
Read more about Hamlet, Benedict Cumberbatch and Lyndsey Turner.