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Gertrude – The Cry

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Originally published
  
2002


Playwright
  
Howard Barker

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Characters
  
Gertrude, Claudius, Hamlet, Albert, Isola, Ragusa, Cascan

Similar
  
Damon and Pythias, Rockabye Hamlet, Fortinbras, 15‑Minute Hamlet, Dogg's Hamlet - Cahoot's

Gertrude – The Cry is a play by British playwright Howard Barker. The play had its world premiere in 2002, directed by the author, in the great hall of Elsinore Castle, Denmark as part of the annual international Hamlet Festival. Its original production featured actors Tom Burke, Sean O'Callaghan, Jason Morell, Justin Avoth, Emma Gersch, Jane Bertish and Victoria Wicks.

Gertrude - The Cry is Howard Barker's reworking of Shakespeare's Hamlet, focusing on the character of Gertrude, the mother of the protagonist in Shakespeare's play. It is not the first time Barker took an existing play as the basis for a reworking. In 1991, he re-imagined Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in his play Vanya, and in 1986 he adapted Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women.

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Gertrude – The Cry Wikipedia