Photo Flash: First Look at HAMLET Starring Gyles Brandreth and Family at Park Theatre

Three members of one real-life family - father, son and wife - bring Hamlet's incestuous confusion of family life sharply into focus in a brand new production at Park Theatre. Starring Gyles Brandreth, Benet Brandreth and Kosha Engler, this take on Shakespeare's epic drama fixes the spotlight on the myriad ways families make and un-make themselves. The production runs 22 August - 16 September, with an official press night on Wednesday 30 August.

Check out photos from the show below!

In Hamlet - an epic drama with domestic tragedy at its heart - two fathers, a mother and a step-father make impossible demands on their children; sometimes it is their care that strangles and suffocates, sometimes it is their deeds and their deceptions which destroy. Meanwhile the children test their parents by their actions and their inaction; by their madness, both real and assumed. Ultimately, two families are destroyed.

Gyles Brandreth is best known as an author, broadcaster and former MP, a reporter on The One Show (BBC1) and a regular on Just A Minute (Radio 4). As an actor, he has played Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Riverside Studios), starred in his own award-winning musical revue in the West End and appeared in three five-star sell-out one-man shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. His most recent London appearance was as Lady Bracknell in a musical version of The Importance of Being Earnest (Riverside Studios).

Photo credit: Francis Loney

Gyles Brandreth and Kosha Engler

Gyles Brandreth and Kosha Engler

Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth, Benet Brandreth, and Kosha Engler

Kosha Engler and Benet Brandreth

Kosha Engler and Benet Brandreth

Kosha Engler

Kosha Engler, Benet Brandreth, and Gyles Brandreth

Kosha Engler, Gyles Brandreth, and Benet Brandreth