Should I stay or should I ghost?

Only Yorick can stop dead King Hamlet destroying everything and everyone he loves. But he’s a fool too.

Pride, privilege and poor parenting skills make a murdured king a dangerous thing.  If he can only stay dead, there'll be no drama and no one dies at the end.

Waiting For Hamlet is a comedy about a tragedy, and a love letter to the greatest play ever written.

Waiting for Hamlet won its writer David Visick the International Kenneth Branagh New Drama Writing Award in 2018. The judges described it as “born from a love of the source material and an equal love of Stoppard-esque wordplay,” and “very clever, funny and skillfully written.”

It was first performed at the Windsor Fringe in October 2018 and an extended 50-minute version was scheduled for 2020 Festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe, before Covid struck.

During the 2020 lockdown the cast recorded an audio version which won an OffWestEnd Oncomm award, alongside productions from the Royal Court and the Donmar. 

During the 2021 Summer Tour which ran from Hastings to Ludlow and from Bristol to Manchester, Waiting for Hamlet picked up the Michael Graney Bursary at the Brighton Fringe.