Name: Hamnet
Start: 2026-02-28T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-02-28T19:00:00-06:00
Location: Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Royal Shakespeare Company and Neal Street Productions
Maggie O’Farrell’s

Hamnet

FEB 10–MAR 8

Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family. When the plague steals 11-year-old Hamnet from his loving parents, they must each confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the greatest suffering, something of extraordinary wonder is born.

Experience the US premiere of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel, adapted by award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (Hymn, Life of Pi, Red Velvet), and directed by Erica Whyman. Pulling back a curtain on the story of the greatest writer in the English language and the woman who was the constant presence and purpose of his life, Hamnet is a love letter to passion, birth, grief, and the magic of nature.

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Adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti
Directed by Erica Whyman

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Run Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes (including intermission)

Audience Notice: Mature themes including scenes of domestic violence, child loss and grief, scenes of childbirth, and depictions of sexual activity.

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