Radiohead photographed in 2003. Peter Pakvis/Redferns
A brand-new manufacturing of Shakespeare’s Hamlet will certainly be soundtracked by Radiohead’s 2003 cd Hail to the Thief.
Hamlet Hail to the Thief will certainly see “Shakespeare’s words and Radiohead’s album illuminate one
another in thrilling new ways as the music becomes a critical part of the narrative” a news release exposes. The manufacturing will certainly consist of an actors of 20 artists and stars doing the cd live onstage throughout the play.
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has actually worked together with Tony and Olivier award-winner Christine Jones and Olivier award-winner Steven Hoggett for the manufacturing.
Hamlet Hail to the Thief will certainly premiere at Manchester’s Aviva Studios, home of Factory International, in Manchester on Apr 27 and will certainly run there up until May 18, 2025. The manufacturing after that moves to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford Upon Avon, England from June 4– 28, 2025. Tickets for the manufacturing take place sale on October 2; even more information can be discoveredhere
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Speaking regarding the brand-new plans of Hail To The Thief, Yorke claimed in a declaration that it was an“interesting and intimidating challenge” He included: “Adapting the original music of Hail To The Thief for live performance with the actors on stage to tell this story that is forever being told, using its familiarity and sounds, pulling them into and out of context, seeing what chimes with the underlying grief and paranoia of Hamlet, using the music as a ‘presence’ in the room, watching how it collides with the action and the text. Ghosting one against the other.”
Hail To The Thief was launched in 2003 by the British band among the results of the intrusion of Iraq and was important of President George W. Bush’s ‘war on terror’ adhering to 9/11. The cd landed at No.3 on the Billboard 200 and at No.1 on the U.K.’s Official Album Charts and its art work, which is included in the play’s marketing poster, was produced by constant partnerStanley Donwood
Speaking in 2003, Yorke claimed that the cd’s lyrical material was affected by “the rise of doublethink and the rise of general intolerance and madness, and feeling very much like individuals were totally out of control of the situation” which“the force of the music gave me licence I think to explore all these things, really” It generated 3 songs, “2+2=5”, “Go To Sleep” and “There, There”.
Jones, that has actually formerly worked together with Hoggett on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and the phase adjustment of Green Day’s American Idiot claimed that William Shakespeare’s play, composed in between 1599 and 1601, lined up with their love of Radiohead’s document.
“Paying attention to the lyrics, I became aware of how many songs from Hail to the Thief speak to the themes of the play,” Jones states. “There are incredible reverberances in between the message and the cd. For years I have actually wished to see the play and cd clash in an item of theater; at some point I shared the concept with Thom, that was interested.
Radiohead launched their latest cd A Moon Shaped Pool in 2016 and the band participants have actually dealt with brand-new tasks since. Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s The Smile will certainly launch their 3rd workshop cd Cutouts on XL Recordings on Oct 4.
The band’s bassist Colin Greenwood just recently exposed that the band had just recently reconvened to rehearse however shared no information of impending songs.
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