The band’s frontman, Thom Yorke, created a show with the Royal Shakespeare Company that is both admirably ambitious and a ...

With Thom Yorke on board as a creative, this project mashes up the best Shakespeare play and the fourth best Radiohead album ...

The play’s not really the thing in Aviva Studios’ Hamlet Hail to the Thief, which uneasily fuses Shakespeare’s tragedy with Radiohead’s 2003 album. The join is about as seamless as the production’s ...

That it’s opened in Factory International’s cavernous Aviva Studios in Manchester before visiting the Royal Shakespeare ...

A modern British production of Shakespeare’s immortal tale of madness and revenge brings out the underlying themes of Radiohead's most “political” album with the blessing of Thom Yorke himself.

A reworked score of Radiohead’s sixth album backs an adaptation that even Shakespeare’s great tragedy has never seen the ...

Paul Hilton (Claudius) and the cast of Hamlet Hail to the Thief Credit: Manuel Harlan Samuel Blenkin (Hamlet) Credit: Manuel ...

Manchester’s Factory International was transformed into a dystopian Elsinore as Hamlet Hail to the Thief made its ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company and Factory International co-production features music by the award-winning band ...

It makes sense to link Thom Yorke’s music and the Bard’s tragedy – but this hurtling experiment only occasionally flares into ...

Well that was down to co-director and co-creator Christine Jones, who, listening to Hail to the Thief while producing an earlier production of Hamlet, noted their similar dystopian themes.

There can be few young misfits who haven’t identified with the brooding melancholy, loneliness and madness of Hamlet.