Re-Member Me
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“Anybody can play Hamlet. Whatever you happen to bring to the part will apply.” – Sir Ian McKellen, in conversation with Dickie Beau
When award-winning performer and lip synch maestro Dickie Beau realised he might never play The Dane, he decided instead to apply himself to becoming a human Hamlet mix-tape. He would channel audio recordings of great historical performances of theatre’s most famous role, to “re-member” the ghosts of Hamlet from the past. Originally coming into existence by haunting the set of Robert Icke’s Hamlet, this solo show is the story of Dickie’s failed quest to become the Über-Hamlet … and why he got distracted on the way.
“Any Hamlet-production trails an army of ghosts, some of which throw their own pallid light on the latest progeny.” – Andy Lavender, Hamlet in Pieces
Part documentary theatre, part twenty first century séance, Re-Member Me is a personal adventure in cultural archaeology and a very contemporary ghost story. It is an animated essay on the impermanence of personhood, procrastination, and the presence of absence on the haunted stage.
Devised and performed by Dickie Beau
Directed by Jan willem van den Bosch
Re-Member Me was developed with the support of the National Theatre’s New Work Department, Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, and Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre.
