Flipping the Script
Belarus Free Theatre
Flipping the ScriptTalawa’s series of play readings showcasing the best in new Black British writing is back.
MICHAEL SHEEN PLAYS HAMLET IN THE THEATRICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR.
After worldwide acclaim in The Queen, Frost/Nixon and The Damned United, Michael Sheen returns to the London stage in one of the most anticipated performances of his career.
Ian Rickson, director of multi-award-winning Jerusalem, gives us his view of Shakespeare's great tragedy.
★★★★
'Sheen’s performance will live in the memory... an audacious achievement.'
Evening Standard
★★★★
'Has a terrifying freshness to it… electrifying.’
Financial Times
★★★★
‘Sheen is unbearably moving.’
The Times
★★★★
‘A prodigious production.’
The Independent
★★★★
'Exhilarating, radical... tremendous.'
Metro
★★★★
'Thrilling... fiery brilliance.'
Independent on Sunday
★★★★
'Stunning, brilliant, extraordinarily moving.'
Mail on Sunday
★★★★
‘Bold and arresting… outstanding.’
Daily Express
★★★★★
‘Utterly riveting.’
City AM
‘Rickson’s production is mad but brilliant.’
The Telegraph
‘Ingenious, revelatory… truly frightening.’
The Observer
'Michael Sheen is the brightest talent of his generation.'
The Observer
Free the Word!Michael Sheen joins forces with acclaimed director Ian Rickson to bring this much-anticipated production of Shakespeare's great tragedy to the Young Vic stage.

Music by Kurt Weill
Book by Elmer Rice
Lyrics by Langston Hughes
Used by arrangement with European American Music Corporation
The Human ComedyMusic by Galt MacDermot, Libretto by William Dumaresq, From the Story by William Saroyan
Elegy for Young Loversmusic by Hans Werner Henze
libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman