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SUNFEST... Hamlet

@ Arts Centre Washington

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Sunfest – The University of Sunderland’s drama department take over Arts Centre Washington to present classic and contemporary texts.

An imaginative retelling of Shakespeare’s story about the Princeof Denmark. Having lost his father, Hamlet is shocked to find his mother Gertrude has been remarried to his uncle Claudius; his dead father’s brother. Their ‘foul incest marriage’, Hamlet’s tortured relationship with his mother, a visitation from his father’s ghost, and his quest to avenge his father’s murder leads Hamlet on apath of revenge with some significant consequences.

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