THE REHEARSAL, PLAYING THE DANE

“I ain’t afraid of no ghost!” - Hamlet

There’s something strange in the neighbourhood of contemporary Denmark. Who are you going to call? That is the question. In Pan Pan’s purgatorial presentation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, you the audience are faced with a choice: who is going to be, or not to be, Hamlet? Actors compete to play the title role but as we enter the graveyard world of this icon of individualism can anyone escape playing the Dane? Aren’t we all the main part?

Highly innovative and visually breathtaking, this is an audacious and irreverent riff on Hamlet that does not so much update or deconstruct the play as explode it!

“Magnificently stimulating and thought-provoking theatre in an equally devastating setting. Not to be missed.”
Emer O’Kelly, Sunday Independent

“A serious, searching work… affecting, provocative and stimulating”
Colin Murphy, Irish Independent

“Absorbing, sometimes mind-blowing… staging the audition process is ingenious.”
Peter Crawley, Irish Theatre Magazine.

• Director: Gavin Quinn
• Designer: Aedín Cosgrove
• Costume & Prop Design: Sarah Bacon
• Assistant Director: Kathryn Hamilton
• Assistant Designer: Grace O’Hara
• Dramaturg: Simon Doyle
• Producer: Aoife White
• Performers: Bush Moukarzel, Andrew Bennett, Ali Coffey, Derrick Devine,
  Gina Moxley, Conor Madden, Amanda Piesse, Daniel Reardon & Judith Roddy

The Melbourne Festival
Booking: 0396855111 / www.melbournefestival.com.au
Dates: 18th – 22nd October 2011

Dunamaise Arts Centre (Portlaoise , Co. Laois)
Booking: 0578663355 / www.dunamaise.ie
Dates: 28th & 29th October 2011

Pavilion Theatre (Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin)
Booking: 012312929 / www.paviliontheatre.ie
Dates: 4th & 5th November 2011

Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (New York University, New York City)
Booking: 2123523101 / skirballcenter.nyu.edu
Dates: 10th – 13th November 2011

Wexner Center (The Ohio State University, Columbus)
Booking: 6142923535 / www.wexarts.org
Dates: 17th – 20th November 2011

Everyman Palace Theatre (15 MacCurtin St., Cork City)
Booking: 0214501653 / www.everymanpalace.com
Dates: 25th & 26th November 2011

Black Box Theatre (Dyke Rd., Galway City)
Booking: 091569777 / www.tht.ie
Dates: 30th November – 1st December 2011