Who Goes There?

A deconstructed version of Shakespeare's HAMLET incorporating film, live action and soundscape.

Each venue was transformed into the court of Elsinore, allowing the audience to promenade through corridors, galleries, ante-rooms and performance areas, witnessing and eavesdropping on the action around them. Scenes, images and snatches of dialogue could erupt from among them, behind them and above them, or from behind a curtain, half-closed door, pane of glass or peephole. Scenes may be inter-cut, re-arranged, played simultaneously or repeated. They may be played as flashbacks and dream sequences or projected onto walls and through video monitors.

By focusing less exclusively on Hamlet, and following more equally the journeys of all the main characters, Who Goes There paints a vivid picture of a fragmented and disintegrating society.

WHO GOES THERE? is a dreamthinkspeak production, directed by Tristan Sharps and Henk Schut. Originally co-produced by The Gardner Arts Centre Brighton in collaboration with The Hawth Crawley, The Brighton International Festival 2001, Artery NL.

WHO GOES THERE? premiered at The Gardner Arts Centre for The Brighton International Festival, subsequently performing at St. Mary-in the Castle Hastings, The Hawth Crawley, The Toneelschuur Haarlem, The Hazlitt Maidstone, Cranleigh Arts Centre, Trinity Arts Centre and Battersea Arts Centre London. We are grateful for the generous support of Arts Council England.