Hamlet Remembered

This studio-based research project directed by Rosemary Klich explores the manifestations of memory and imagination within Shakespeare’s Hamlet, culminating in a performance at the University of Kent. Like Hamlet, the performers took on the ghost’s charge, ‘remember me’: performers have explored their own memories of, responses to, and imagined versions of the source text, a text riddled with questions around the accuracy of remembered experience. During an intensive series of workshops and rehearsals, performers examined the phenomenon of ‘sense memory’ in relation to performance, not only as a tool for characterization but as a means of developing new material.

This is a staff-led research project involving drama students from the University of Kent and supported by the Centre for Cognition, Kinaesthetics, and Performance.