Review: ‘Hamlet Hail to the Thief’

Review: ‘Hamlet Hail to the Thief’

Created over 400 years apart, many have noticed the uncanny overlap in themes between Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief. Luckily, creators Christine Jones and Stephen Hoggett more than simply noticed this and, after years in the making, Hamlet Hail to the Thief is finally hitting the stages: first at Manchester’s Aviva Studios, then a transfer to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon next month.The production …

Founded by the band's vocalist, Thom Yorke, a piece of history in less than two hours, with a strong emphasis on music and Radiohead's visual finding the Bardo: a blend for eternity — and scriptonita for Puritans, you can think. But a new dance version of "Hamlet" at the LP of the band in 2003, "Hail to the tthief" ("Save the thief", in free translation), which emerged in Manchester, England, on the last quarter, is not just an illusion.