From PreacherAMC to Prince of Denmark: RuthNegga to make American stage debut playing title role in 'Hamlet.' Get the details here:
has signed on for a monthlong run at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, beginning performances Feb. 1, 2020. The production comes to New York following its acclaimed debut last fall at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, directed by Yael Farber.
South African director and playwright Farber drew superlative reviews at St. Ann's for her Strindberg adaptation, , which reset the play 18 years after the end of apartheid. Her direction and text edit onshift the focus from the title character's anguish and identity to the power of the prince's resistance against treachery and the raw usurpation of power.
The Gate production is presented in association with Kate Pakenham Productions. Pakenham has a history of collaborating with St. Ann's Warehouse dating back to her tenure as executive producer of London's Donmar Warehouse, where Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Shakespeare Trilogy originated before traveling to the Brooklyn venue.
St. Ann's currently is represented on Broadway with Daniel Fish's radical revisionist take on Rodgers & Hammerstein's, which won this year's Tony Award for best musical revival, as well as best featured actress in a musical for Ali Stroker.
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