PROGRESS Theatre has announced it is back with a summer run at Reading Abbey Ruins this year.
This time around, the theatre is bringing William Shakespeare’s most celebrated–and most quoted–play, Hamlet, to the hallowed grounds of one of the town’s most historic venues.
The play follows the clever yet tormented 20-year-old Prince Hamlet in the wake of his father’s death under suspicious circumstances.
His widowed mother has remarried his uncle, who has seized the Danish throne, and the woman he loves, Ophelia, is heading towards a tragedy of her own.
Their two families are bound together in a relentless descent from which no one will escape unscathed.
Dark humour intermingles with grief, betrayal and madness, culminating in a conclusion as devastating as any in theatre.
Progress Theatre’s Hamlet is showing at Reading Abbey Ruins on Wednesday, July 15, and Saturday, July 25.
Full details and tickets available via: progresstheatre.co.uk
