THE REHEARSAL, PLAYING THE DANE

The Abbey Theatre 23 - 26 May 2018

Wuzen Theatre Festival, China, N Theatre 27 - 29 October 2017

New Zealand International Arts Festival, TSB Arena 2012

Black Box Theatre 2011 | Everyman Palace 2011 | Skirball Centre for the Performing Arts, New York University 2011 | Wexner Center, The Ohio State University 2011 | Pavillion Theatre 2011 | Dunamaise Arts Centre 2011 | The Melbourne Festival, Arts Projects Australia, The Malthouse Theatre 2011

Dublin Theatre Festival, Samuel Beckett Theatre 2010

A serious, searching work… affecting, provocative and stimulating.

Colin Murphy, Irish Independent

Best Production and Best Set Design, Irish Times Theatre Awards 2010

There’s something strange in the neighbourhood of contemporary Denmark. Who are you going to call? That is the question.

In Pan Pan’s purgatorial presentation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, you the audience are faced with a choice: who is going to be, or not to be, Hamlet? Actors compete to play the title role but as we enter the graveyard world of this icon of individualism can anyone escape playing the Dane? Aren’t we all the main part?Highly innovative and visually breathtaking, this is an audacious and irreverent riff on Hamlet that does not so much update or deconstruct the play as explode it.

“Magnificently stimulating and thought-provoking theatre in an equally devastating setting. Not to be missed.”

Emer O’Kelly, Sunday Independent

“A serious, searching work… affecting, provocative and stimulating”

Colin Murphy, Irish Independent

“Absorbing, sometimes mind-blowing… staging the audition process is ingenious.”

Peter Crawley, Irish Theatre Magazine.

Directed by Gavin Quinn

Designed by Aedín Cosgrove

Costumes and props designed by Sarah Bacon

Dramaturg: Simon Doyle

Produced by Aoife White and Andrew McLellan

Original Cast: Garret Lombard, Conor Madden, Derrick Devine, Judith Roddy, Andrew Bennet, Olwen Fouéré, Daniel Reardon and the Great Dane, Toby

Tour 2012 Cast: Bush Moukarzel, Andrew Bennett, Derrick Devine, Gina Moxley, Conor Madden, Daniel Reardon and Judith Roddy.

Tour 2017/2018 Cast: Andrew Bennett, Conor Madden, Anthony Morris, Gina Moxley, Daniel Reardon, Anna Sheils McNamee, Fionn Walton

Dublin Youth Theatre:  Aoife Connolly-O’Sullivan, Melia McEvoy, Rhys Travers-Coleman, Lee Stafford, David Kearney, Eoin Fullston, Tristan Spellman Molphy, Charlotte Murphy and Penny Morris