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Last year, Hamlet Hail to the Thief<\/em><\/a>\u2014an adaptation of Shakespeare\u2019s eternal classic, Hamlet,<\/em> set to Radiohead<\/a>\u2019s politically charged 2003 album, Hail to the Thief<\/em><\/a>\u2014made its world debut in Manchester, England. Now, after completing an additional run at the historic Royal Shakespeare Company, the play will get its London premiere at the Barbican Theatre from October 31 through January 23.<\/p>\n Hamlet Hail to the Thief<\/em> is directed and adapted by Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett, with Thom Yorke<\/a> reworking and orchestrating Hail to the Thief<\/em> songs with a cast of 20 musicians and actors. Samuel Blenkin will reprise his role as Hamlet alongside Ami Tredrea as Ophelia.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m into finally bringing Hamlet Hail to the Thief<\/em> to London, and to the Barbican of all places!\u201d Yorke wrote in a press release. \u201cIt is fascinating and very strange to me how this came to life and how it has worked. When it revealed itself to us over time I was shocked, having never had this kind of experience before. I am happy for it to be seen by a wider audience in such an intense space.\u201d<\/p>\n In his review<\/a> for Pitchfork, contributor Daniel Dylan Wray noted how the play\u2019s themes of paranoia and grief dovetailed naturally with the music\u2019s similar topics: \u201cThis project really doesn\u2019t have any right to work, or make quite as much sense as it does. But it is an absorbing, heart-racing, and thrilling production that gracefully utilizes this music to co-exist within powerful dramatic depictions of grief, fear, madness, and death.\u201d<\/p>\n Read Pitchfork\u2019s 2025 concert review of Radiohead\u2019s first show in eight years<\/a>.<\/p>\n