When award-winning lip sync maestro and intrepid drag fabulist Dickie Beau realized that he might never play Shakespeare’s tragic prince, he decided to turn himself into a human Hamlet mix-tape. He would channel audio recordings of great historical performances of theater's most famous role to “re-member” the ghosts of Hamlet from the past.
Humorous and haunting, Re-Member Me is part documentary theatre, part 21st-century séance adventure through cultural landscapes and a contemporary ghost story. In an ode to the impermanence of personhood and posterity, Beau chronicles the remarkable story behind the greatest Hamlet almost never seen.
The “Human Hamlet mixtape” features excerpts from the Hamlets of Sir John Gielgud, John Barrymore, Peter O’Toole & Kenneth Branagh.
Created and Performed by Dickie Beau
Collaborator and Director Jan-Willem Van Den Bosch
Lighting Design Marty Langthorne
Stage Manager Naomi Harvey
Special Props Fani Parali
Additional Costumes Provided by The Almeida Theatre, London
Voices by Sir Ian Mckellen (Actor), Sir John Gielgud (Actor), John Wood (former Theatrical Agent), Sir Richard Eyre (Director and former Artistic Director of The Royal National Theatre), Stephen Ashby (former Dresser at The Royal National Theatre), Sean Mathias (Director), Suzanne Bertish (Actress), and John Peter (former Chief Critic of The Sunday Times).
https://publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/UTR-2018/Re-Member-Me/
