Bakerloo Theatre Project's production of Hamlet, What Dreams May Come, created by award-winning playwright Adam Mathias (See Rock City & Other Destinations) and William Addis, will run at the West End Theater at 286 West 86th Street on February 6 at 3pm and February 7 and 8th at 8pm. The production is part of Prospect Theater Company's Dark Night Series.
This thrilling four person adaptation uses Shakespeare's text in a 90 minute exploration of the English language's most enigmatic anti-hero. Featuring Gwyn Hervochon, Joseph McGranaghan, Sarah Murphy, and Adam Thomas Smith. Production design by William Addis and Eric Chase.
Hamlet: What Dreams May Come was developed as part of Bakerloo Theatre Project's 2009 season, and premiered July 17th in Troy, NY. The production was named one of the best of the decade in the Berkshires by the North Adams Transcript, and Phil Drew of The Record said "To borrow from the Bard, Bakerloo's brevity is the soul of wit, illuminating Shakespeare's most complex character in a clear and fresh new light". Gail Burns of Gailsez.org said ""What Adam Mathias and William Addis have done with Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing short of brilliant."
All seats are $15. For tickets call (212)-352-3101 or visit www.prospecttheater.org.
Adam Mathias won the 2008 Richard Rodgers Award and 2007 Jerry Bock Award, in collaboration with Brad Alexander, for See Rock City & Other Destinations (Barrington Stage Company) and conceived and co-wrote The Passion of George W. Bush (2004 NY Int'l Fringe; Joe's Pub.) Mathias's work has been performed in New York City at The American Airlines Theatre, Birdland, The Triad, The Duplex, The Laurie Beechman, The Snapple Theatre and Prospect Theater Company and wrote the book for The Dirty Hippie Jam Band Project, which was performed as part of the Theatrical Thursdays series at the Jerry Orbach Theater this January.
William Addis is artistic director of Bakerloo Theatre Project. William's directing credits with Bakerloo include The Tempest, Macbeth, Love's Labour's Lost, Twelfth Night or What You Will, Design for Living, DesdeMona Lives, A Long Conversation and Antigone, which he also adapted. He recently direcTed Bakerloo's production of Three Sisters, performed at various locations around New York City. William has worked with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, 12 Miles West Theatre Company, Appel Farm Arts and Music Center, The Brooklyn Playwright's Collective and Theatre for a New City. Recent directing credits include world premieres of Through The Red by Maria Micheles (Confronting Chekhov Festival) and RUB by Joy Tomasko (Paper Beats Rock Series) as well as Shakespeare's R&J and Am I Blue at Brooklyn College and Spring Dance by Horton Foote at Marymount Manhattan College.
It is the mission of Bakerloo Theatre Project to present vital, intelligent productions of Shakespeare's canon and other classic works by serving as a home to up-and-coming professional theatre artists of the highest caliber. Through performance and education, Bakerloo produces high-quality, low-cost, innovative theatre that shuns pretense so that a new generation of audiences will see theatre as a dynamic, accessible and inclusive experience.
Since 2000, Bakerloo Theatre Project has produced a summer theatre residency in the capital region of New York State. Beginning as a brief retreat for early career actors from New York City the residency has developed into a precious sanctuary for emerging theatre artists from around the country. In ten years, Bakerloo Theatre Project has provided over 100 actors, directors, designers and stage managers the opportunity to work on the greatest plays in the dramatic canon in a focused, intensive setting. As a result, Bakerloo Theatre Project has become a summer tradition in the capital region. Audiences looking for intelligent, athletic and literate productions appreciate Bakerloo's style. Augmenting our summer productions, Bakerloo produces many readings, workshops and educational programs, including an ongoing curriculum-based scene study project-first produced for the cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point-while serving as a hothouse for the development of new interpretations of classic texts. Bakerloo has also participated in Troy Night Out, the Victorian Stroll and the Troy Food and Film Festival and conducts the weekly Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl.
