Gertrude - The Cry is a play

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 by British playwright

Playwright

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 Howard Barker

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. The play had its world premiere in 2002, directed by the author, in the great hall of Elsinore Castle, Denmark

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 as part of the annual international Hamlet Festival. Its original production featured British actor Tom Burke

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Gertrude - The Cry is Howard Barker's reworking of Shakespeare's Hamlet

Hamlet

The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...

, focusing on the character of Gertrude, the mother of the protagonist in Shakespeare's play. It is not the first time Barker took an existing play as the basis for a reworking. In 1991, he re-imagined Chekhov

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's Uncle Vanya

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 in his play Vanya, and in 1986 he adapted Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton

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's Women Beware Women.