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Theatre in the Forest 2025: Hamlet
“Electric”
“Showstopping”
The Daily Mail
“Red Rose’s Hamlet is very much a triumph, there is no tragedy to be found here”
Ipswich24
“There is something wonderful in the grounds of Sutton Hoo”
Suffolk on Stage
HAMLET
Red Rose Chain’s Theatre in the Forest returned in 2025 for its fourth year at Sutton Hoo in partnership with the National Trust with an unforgettable production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet!
2025 brought record box office sales, incredible community engagement and the ghostly return of King Readwald to Sutton Hoo with our spectacular puppet created by Charlie Tymms!
Trailer by Erica Belton | Pip Films
Images by Bill Jackson
CAST
CREATIVES
JOANNA CARRICK
Director
DAVID NEWBORN
Producer | Lighting designer
KATY LATHAM
Designer
CHARLIE TYMMS
Puppet design & construction
LAURA CUBITT
Puppet director
RYAN PENNY
Fight director
SYDNEY ALDRIDGE
Casting
