2. HAMLET: PRINCE OF DENMARK
Cast
Hamlet - Jack Briggs
Claudius - Ebe Bamgboye
Gertrude - Cara Mahoney
Polonius & gravedigger - David Trimble
ophelia - Kate Kitchens
Laertes - AJ Brennan
Rosenkrantz - Coco Claxton
Guildenstern - Annabel Ekelund
Horatio - Calvin Duff
Osric - Shonagh Smith
Marcellus & clown queen - alex Mackay
Clown Lucianus & Reynaldo - Adam Spencer
clown King & voltimand - Chris ames
player queen - iain millar
player lucianus & king’s pa - neil christy
player king - nishant raj
Prologue - Matthew Colley
Agda Gertrude’s PA - Kuffasse Boane
Priest - Sophie Samuda
Cornelia - Laura Ferguson
Crew
Director - Mathilde Johnsen
Producers - Amanda Hollinger &
Hannah Risser
Stage Manager - Shari Sharpe
Lighting and Sound design - Fraser Craig
Costume Design - Suzanna Swanson-Johnston
Hair and Makeup - Meredith Rowlands
Set design - Lucy Reis and Harriet Breakwell
Co-costume designer and props - nell simon
sound operator - Alex Stasiak
Visual mediA - Chris GovieR
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4. Directors Note
For Us and for Our Tragedy
Monsters are people too.
And people can be monsters. If the world could
simply be divided up into good and bad people, things
would be easy; but the complexities and chaos of
life, human fallibility, the relationships we create
and the ripple effects they have, is what we have
to deal with. Leaving behind the heroes and villains,
my aim with this production has been to explore the
people of Elsinore – and how things can spin out of
control, even when everyone is trying to do what
they believe is right.
From that starting point, three years ago,
a winding road has led to what we have the
privilege of showing you tonight. I want to thank
all the people who have put up with my ramblings
about this over the years, the HamletStA crew, the
RSC, Dundee Rep and particularly Joe Douglas, as well
as the most brilliant cast I could have ever wanted
to help bring this idea to life. Lastly,
Mermaids Performing Arts Fund, the wonderful hip-
pie commune of theatre without whom none of this
would have been possible.
Mathilde johnsen
special thanks
Lucy Owen-Jones, Emerald Herrick doyle,
The Royal Shakespeare Company, Joe Douglas,
Gemma Ward, Leila Kalbassi, Enza Dormizzi,
The Dundee Rep, St Andrews Fencing Society,
Bruce Turner, Barbara Aitken, Rummage,
Caroline Christie, Charlie Maguire, Tommy Rowe,
Hugo Fell, Tom Giles, chris govier, Katie Brennan,
Katherine Weight, amy seaman, Danielle Donnally,
and the mermaids performing arts fund.
