Wednesday 11 January 2017

Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and produced in London with the characters in modern dress in 1925

Scenes from Hamlet written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), having opened in London, before being performed in Birmingham, with the characters in modern dress, under the direction of Barry Jackson (theatre director and founder of BRT, 1879 - 1961) and H. K. Ayliff (theatre director, 1871 - 1949), and then at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham in England,  in 1925, with Muriel Hewitt, dressed for her role of Ophelia in the style of the flapper generation of the 1920s


London production

Birmingham production
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