Hamlet

Synopsis: Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of Tiny Ninja Theatre’s Hamlet. The production uses video projections and visual gimmicks to dramatise the story: Ophelia drowns in a glass of water; the ghost appears as an enormous mouth holding a black-clad Ninja Hamlet between his jaws. Not all the cast are Ninjas: Gertrude and Claudius are played by grinning dime-store figurines.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 31 Oct 2006
Duration: 55 mins

Theatre: Cube, The
Theatre company: Tiny Ninja Theatre
Production type: Stage Recordings
Plays: Hamlet
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Complete Works Festival (Stratford upon Avon 2006-7); Multimedia productions

Notes: Weinstein’s Tiny Ninja Theater consists of a "one-man mini-ninja operation" with the actor-director providing all movement and voices for 30 one-inch-high plastic figurines, made up almost entirely of ninjas.
Tagline ‘No small parts, only small actors’
General: From 25 October-18 November 2006 the auditorium of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre was transformed into an intimate 100 seat studio space.
History: The production played 31 October and 1 November at The Cube.
Reviews: http://www.tinyninjatheater.com/ (accessed 3 April 2008)

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

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