Hamlet: Double Bill is the winner of the Shakesphere 2024 award. The European Shakespeare Festival Network selected our production out of a shortlist of over 70 plays from around the world. As a result of winning this award, we were invited to perform at 6 festivals in Spring/Summer 2024:

York International Shakespeare Festival (UNITED KINGDOM)

Shakespeare Festival at Globe Neuss (GERMANY)

Craiova International Shakespeare Festival (ROMANIA)

Ukrainian Shakespeare Festival in Ivano-Frankivsk (UKRAINE)

Itaca Shakespeare Festival (SERBIA)

The Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival (POLAND)

We are proud to bring our award-winning production back to Pisa, where the project first took shape.

The Play’s The Thing: after the dubious success of “The Mousetrap” at the court of King Claudius, the players are on the road again with their latest production: “The Play’s The Thing!”. ‘Holding, as t’were, the mirror up to nature’, they also know that time is of the essence, and no audience has the time or patience to sit through three and a half hours of 400-year-old English verse. The players must be quick and clever to keep their audiences enthralled.

The Rest is Silence: in the churchyard where they laid Ophelia to rest, the gravediggers are digging again. They must now inter the rest of the dead, before the night is done. Whilst they dig, they catch, as if on the wind, fragments of the words and thoughts of those who once were ‘too, too solid flesh’. The gravediggers know all too well though, that ‘all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.’

Hamlet: Double Bill, is the second collaboration, after Waiting For Juliet, between The English Theatre Company and La Ribalta Teatro. We continue to play with a distinct theatrical language which, alongside the ‘mother tongue’ of the ETC and the ‘madrelingua’ of La Ribalta, create a multi-layered performance: both rich and complex, simple and essential.