Hamlet | Director’s Perspective from Rehearsal to Production 

Award-winning director Yaël Farber heads the exciting team of creatives behind The Gate Theatre's 2018 production of Hamlet.
Oscar-nominated Irish actress, Ruth Negga, makes her Gate stage debut in the title role of Hamlet, joined by a cast of Ireland’s finest actors.
Hamlet is one of the most revived Shakespeare plays in the Gate’s 90 year history (1928-2018). In celebration of the theatre’s pioneering founders, Hilton Edwards and Micheál Mac Liammóir, Shakespeare’s iconic story of politics, vengeance, madness and murder is reimagined in a ground-breaking, visionary Gate Theatre production for today’s audience.
Cast includes: Fiona Bell, Gavin Drea, Aoife Duffin, Nick Dunning, Peter Gaynor, Steve Hartland, Mark Huberman, Will Irvine, Gerard Kelly, Barry McKiernan, Ruth Negga, Shane O’Reilly, Owen Roe, Gerard Walsh
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Director
Yaël Farber
Set & Costume Designer
Susan Hilferty
Lighting Designer
Paul Keogan
Sound Designer
Tom Lane
Movement Director
Muirne Bloomer
Voice Director
Andrea Ainsworth
Associate Director
Marc Atkinson
Text Edit
Yaël Farber
Textual Advisor
Ben Power
Associate Costume Designer
Orla Long
Assistant Director
Romana Testasecca