Thom Yorke is to rework Radiohead’s album Hail to the Thief for a new stage production of Hamlet, opening next spring in Manchester.
Yorke said that the concept for the show presented him with “an interesting and intimidating challenge” to see how the music “collides with the action and the text” of Shakespeare’s tragedy. He added that the endeavour would uncover how much of his band’s album, which features the tracks There There and Go to Sleep, “chimes with the underlying grief and paranoia” of the play.
