Get ready to start reciting ‘to be or not to be?’ in an overly theatrical voice, folks.

The Bard On The Beach theatre company has announced plans to stage a performance of William Shakespeare’s classicHamlet. Directed by lauded theatrical talent Kylie Rowling, the show will undoubtedly take on added pathos and weight in the intimate confines of the Greek.

Though the work has become canonised – so much so that anyone can rattle off a few lines from its oft-parodied soliloquies –the upcoming production could serve as a timely reminder of just how vicious and cutting edge Shakespeare was, and still is, for that matter.

Hamlet opens at the Greek Theatre in Marrickville on Friday March 11 and runs through till Saturday March 19. More information is available from the Greek Theatre website, here.

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