Hamlet
Prince of Denmark
By William Shakespeare
Japanese Translation by Kazuko Matsuoka
This production opened at Geigeki Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo on the 7th April 2017 for a limited run of one month. It then made a tour of Japan, visiting theatres in Hyogo, Kochi, Fukuoka, Nagano and Aichi, closing on the 26th May 2017.
Creative Team
| Director | John Caird |
| Associate Director | Maoko Imai |
| Designer | Yukio Horio |
| Costumes | Nobuko Miyamoto |
| Music | Dozan Fujiwara |
| Lighting | Ryuichi Nakagawa |
| Assistant Director | Maiko Tanaka |
| Sound | Masahiro Inoue |
| Movement | Shigehiro Ide |
| Fights | Makiya Yamaguchi |
| Hair & Make-Up | Hiroaki Miyauchi |
| Stage Manager | Kenichi Konno & Yasuko Tokunaga |
| Observer | Gabriele Colferai |
Cast
| Hamlet | Seiyo Uchino |
| Horatio | Yukiya Kitamura |
| Claudius & Ghost | Jun Kunimura |
| Gertrude | Yuko Asano |
| Polonius | Haruhiko Jo |
| Laertes | Kazuki Kato |
| Ophelia | Shihori Kanjiya |
| Rosencrantz | Makiya Yamaguchi |
| Guildenstern | Takuya Kon |
| Player King & Gravedigger | Kunio Murai |
| Other Parts played by | Wataru Oshige, Tetsuji Muraoka, Ritsuko Ichibori, Yuma Fukami |
| Shakuhachi | Dozan Fujiwara |