Waiting for Hamlet

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

How do you tell the vengeful king that the combination of pride, privilege and poor parenting that got him killed in the first place will kill everyone he loves if he doesn't take it lying down?

It’s a battle of wits between two fools - and only one of them knows he’s a fool.

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

That's a wrap

Our Summer series is all over and the king and the fool are back in Limbo until 2022.

the players

The King: Tim Marriott

About Tim

The Fool: Nicholas Collett

About Nicholas

The Writer: David Visick

David has written two books, Farrow and Ball will be Named in our Divorce and Vanity Mirror. For ten years he wrote a blog, My Homework Ate the Dog, and won the Word Magazine Blog of The Year award in 2012. Waiting for Hamlet, which won the 2018 International Kenneth Branagh New Drama Writing Award at the Windsor Fringe, was his first play. Other works include A Play on Words, Absolutely Everything and The Leavers. For 2021 he has developed a two-hour, three-act version of Waiting for Hamlet and a short companion piece, Banquo's Ghosts.

"VERY CLEVER, FUNNY AND SKILLFULLY WRITTEN”

Project Whamlet

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.

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.

Waiting for Hamlet Part II (the sequel to the prequel) is being prepared for performances in 2022. It continues the adventures of the King and the Fool as they observe and take part in the action in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Its cast of six play all the characters from the original play.