Hamnet
Dead Centre
Written and directed by Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel
Presented in association with Irish Arts Center
BAM DEBUT
Shakespeare had a son named Hamnet. He was 11 when he died. A tragedy that passed as barely a footnote in history. This is our chance to hear from him.
Irish theater company Dead Centre grapples with the shadows that surround a spotlight. This stunning play puts a boy on center stage—an unassuming embodiment of tragedy, mortality, legacy, and longing—whose destiny is not to be.
Text by Bush Moukarzel, Ben Kidd and William Shakespeare
Dramaturgy by Michael West
Set design by Andrew Clancy
Costume design by Grace O’Hara
Lighting design by Stephen Dodd
Sound design by Kevin Gleeson
Video design by Jose Miguel Jimenez
Choreography by Liv O’Donoghue
Presented with support from Culture Ireland
Leadership support for theater at BAM provided by The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.; The SHS Foundation; and The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
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