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Directed byElizabeth LeCompteCastAri FliakosKoosil-jaAlessandro MaganiaGreg MehrtenDaniel PettrowScott ShepherdCasey SpoonerKate ValkThe Festival is proud to welcome The Wooster Group, oneof the most innovative theatre companies in the world, toDublin for the first time. Led by visionary director ElizabethLeCompte, The Wooster Group and its associates haveconstantly reimagined classic and devised texts throughits groundbreaking work.The Wooster Group’s haMLet repurposes the film versionof Richard Burton’s legendary 1964 Broadway versionof hamlet – a production that was screened in cinemasacross America. In a rapturous and often hypnoticproduction, they reverse the process, reconstructing theshow from the fragmentary evidence of the edited film,and channelling the ghosts of the 1964 performance.With songs by Casey Spooner (Fischerspooner) andperformances by long-time Wooster members Ari Fliakos,Scott Shepherd and Kate Valk, prepare to be enthralledas this iconic tragedy is transformed.HAMLET IS a co-proDuctIon oF the wooSter Group anDthe 30 FeStIVaL oF BarceLona Grec-InStItute De cuLtura,ajuntaMent oF BarceLona.hamletBy William Shakespeare19