Louis Fowler unpacks a propulsive staging of Hamlet, driven by the music of Radiohead and charged with new intensity.

The band’s frontman, Thom Yorke, created a show with the Royal Shakespeare Company that is both admirably ambitious and a ...

It makes sense to link Thom Yorke’s music and the Bard’s tragedy – but this hurtling experiment only occasionally flares into ...

With Thom Yorke on board as a creative, this project mashes up the best Shakespeare play and the fourth best Radiohead album ...

In Hamlet Hail to the Thief, co-directors and creators Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett collaborate with Yorke to bring its themes into dialogue with Hamlet. Shakespeare’s perhaps most ...

There can be few young misfits who haven’t identified with the brooding melancholy, loneliness and madness of Hamlet.

Paul Hilton (Claudius) and the cast of Hamlet Hail to the Thief Credit: Manuel Harlan Samuel Blenkin (Hamlet) Credit: Manuel ...

That it’s opened in Factory International’s cavernous Aviva Studios in Manchester before visiting the Royal Shakespeare ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company and Factory International co-production features music by the award-winning band ...

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A reworked score of Radiohead’s sixth album backs an adaptation that even Shakespeare’s great tragedy has never seen the ...

Manchester’s Factory International was transformed into a dystopian Elsinore as Hamlet Hail to the Thief made its ...