EDDIE IZZARD PERFORMS SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET

AUCKLAND                 Q THEATRE                                                15 – 18 JULY
WELLINGTON             SOUNDINGS THEATRE                             21 – 23 JULY

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“We are privileged to be partners in the drama… an impressive, sweeping performance.” ★★★★ – The Telegraph (UK)
 
“When it gets to the famous soliloquies… Izzard smashes all three of the great ones with startling alacrity” ★★★★ – Chicago Tribune
 
“Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet is spectacular.” – Dame Judi Dench

Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated performer Eddie Izzard will return to bring her acclaimed one-person performance of The Tragedy of Hamlet to New Zealand in July 2026, following sold-out seasons in the US and UK. Nominated for two drama awards – NY Outer Critics Circle Award: Outstanding Solo Performance and New York Drama League: Distinguished Performance Award.
 
Akin to the original performances of Hamlet, Eddie will perform on the blank canvas of a bare stage, letting Shakespeare’s words and pure storytelling take the spotlight. Adapted by Mark Izzard and directed by Selina Cadell, this production sees Eddie embody all 23 characters in the timeless tragedy.
 
The King of Denmark is dead and Prince Hamlet is determined to take revenge, initiating a cascade of events that will destroy both family and state. Eddie will be portraying men, women, ghosts, scholars, tyrants, courtiers, lovers, fools and poets.
 
“I have always gravitated towards playing complex and demanding characters” says Eddie, “and Hamlet is the pinnacle. This production is for everyone – a timeless drama with an accidental hero. Selina, Mark and I want audiences to see and hear an accessible, touching, scary and dramatic Hamlet.”
 
This is Eddie Izzard and Hamlet as you’ve never seen them before.
 
This is Eddie’s second solo production following the sold-out run of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, which played to rave reviews in New York and London
 
About Eddie Izzard
Eddie Izzard’s Broadway credits are A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Tony Award nomination) and Race. Her London stage credits include The Cryptogram, Edward II, 900 Oneonta, and Joe Egg. Eddie’s film credits include Stephen Frears’ Victoria & Abdulopposite Dame Judi Dench, Valkyrie, Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Thirteen, Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe, Mystery Men, Shadow of the Vampire, The Cat’s Meow and Six Minutes to Midnight. TV audiences also saw her as Dr. Abel Gideon in Bryan Fuller’s series, Hannibal. Izzard starred in and served as an executive producer on the critically acclaimed FX Networks series, The Riches. Her other notable films include Castles in the Sky, Treasure Island, and the Emmy winning Lost Christmas. Izzard made her West End stage debut in 1993 in the solo show Live at the Ambassadors, for which she received an Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement. That was followed by a succession of critically acclaimed shows: Unrepeatable, Definite Article, Glorious, Dress to Kill, Circle, Sexie, Stripped, Force Majeure and Wunderbar. Eddie is the recipient of two Emmy Awards (for Dressed to Kill) and an Emmy Award nomination for the documentary, Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story. Her autobiography Believe Me entered the top ten in the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller lists. She performs in four languages and since 2009 has run 131 marathons to raise money for Sport Relief and her charitable  fund.  Izzard: The Tragedy of Hamlet was nominated for New York’s: Drama League’s Distinguished Performance Award and Outer Critic’s Circle Outstanding Solo Performance Award. 
 
About Selina Cadell
Selina Cadell is a director, actress and coach. Theatre directing includes Love for Love(RSC), The Life I Lead (West End), The Double Dealer (Orange Tree London), The Rivals (Arcola London), The Way of the World (Wilton’s London), The Rake’s Progress (Wilton’s London). Films include The Turn of the Screw (Best Opera Film 2021 Critics Circle Award).  Acting/theatre includes Top Girls (NYC) /Obie Award, Stanley (NYC), Madness of King George (NYC), Twelfth Night, Cherry Orchard (NYC), A Monster Calls (London). TV includes Midsomer Murders, Queens of Mystery, Poirot and Doc Martin (Mrs. Tishell). Selina runs an opera company with Eliza Thompson, Operaglass Works.
 
About Mark Izzard
Hamlet is Mark and Eddie's second collaboration following Charles Dickens Great Expectations. Prior to this, Mark's involvement with his sibling’s career has been limited to a brief stint as sound technician (cassette-recorder) in Eddie’s first ever comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1981 and a series of European tours (2014-18) when Eddie performed stand-up comedy in French, German and Spanish. Mark’s role was to simplify and adapt the translated routines into a language which Eddie could reproduce on stage, a task made possible by Mark speaking all three languages. In the process both siblings discovered that they worked well together, their shared sense of humour offsetting the more difficult moments of the creative process.