LibGuides: Krannert Center Events: 2022-2023 Season: Why Not Theatre: Prince Hamlet

About This Event

Adapted and directed by Ravi Jain

ASL and Visual Adaptation by Dawn Jani Birley

Ravi Jain’s remixed, reimagined, and bilingual Prince Hamlet features a cross-cultural, gender-bent cast—challenging traditional ideas of who can tell this story. Interweaving Shakespeare’s spoken text with heightened and poetic American Sign Language, this groundbreaking production creates a visually stunning retelling for both hearing and Deaf audiences. You’ve never experienced Hamlet like this before.

Featuring Dawn Jani Birley as Horatio (Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best Actress in a Play). “This is no ordinary Hamlet”- Toronto Star

This performances contains Shakespearean violence and is recommended for ages 12 and up.

Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 5:30pm in the Tryon Festival Theatre.

See the Krannert Center website for more details and to purchase tickets.

Featured Items from MPAL's Collection

Hamlet by William Shakespeare; Kenneth Branagh (Screenplay by, Introduction by); Russell Jackson (Contribution by); Rolf Konow (Photographer); Peter Mountain (Photographer)
Call Number: 791.4372 H18B (Main Stacks)
Shakespeare Re-Dressed by James C. Bulman
Call Number: PR3100 .S55 2008 (Literature & Languages Library)
Examining performances through the lenses of feminism, queer theory, and cultural materialism, this title situates cross-dressed Shakespeare in the context of critical debates over the social construction of gender.
Casting a Movement by Claire Syler; Daniel Banks
Call Number: PN2293.C38 C37 2019
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