Following a triple extended engagement in New York, a box office record-breaking two-week run in Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and a six-week London run—which Dame Judi Dench called “spectacular”—Tony Award-nominated Eddie Izzard brings Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” to life in a dynamic new staging of the play, adapted by Mark Izzard and directed by Selina Cadell.
This solo performance of “Hamlet” has seven performances only in Los Angeles, Thursday to Jan. 31 at The Montalbán Theatre. Tickets are on sale at ticketmaster.com. “Hamlet” in Los Angeles is a Westbeth Entertainment Production.
“Hamlet” received a New York Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance, as well as a nomination for the New York Drama League’s Distinguished Performance Award.
The King of Denmark is dead, and Prince Hamlet must take revenge—initiating a cascade of events that will destroy both family and state. In Hamlet, Izzard portrays men, women, ghosts, scholars, tyrants, courtiers, lovers, fools, and poets.
Izzard says, “I have always gravitated towards playing complex and challenging characters and Hamlet is the ultimate. This is a production for everyone, a timeless drama with an accidental hero. Selina, Mark, and I want audiences to see and hear an accessible, touching, tragic, and dramatic Hamlet.”
Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune said, “I’ve always been fascinated watching Izzard’s mind and memory work — and she clearly has thought through everything in what was a near-flawless textual performance. For those of us who know ‘Hamlet’ like the back of our hands, there are revelations on tap … [and] when it gets to the famous soliloquies, Izzard smashes all three of the great ones with genuinely startling alacrity. A reward is to see an artist who deeply believes in taking risks and who loves to share the rewards.”
Hamlet marks Izzard’s second solo show following her sold-out run of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” which played to rave reviews in New York and at The Garrick Theatre in London’s West End.
