About the Show

Gloria Williams' new play delving into inequality, unemployment, and gang culture.

Hamlin, Quinn, and Nic are doing what all inner-city London teenagers are trying to do: get ahead.

After his dad passes away, Hamlin is focused on finishing school and getting a well-paying job in order to get a better life for himself & his mum. When Quinn and Nic offer Hamlin easy money in the form of drug trafficking, he is put to the ultimate test, and has to question whether to put his & his mum's dreams on the line.

Critic Reviews (2)

"This doom-laden world has more than one teenage funeral but the play ultimately offers hope – and a potential way out for the likes of our noble young 'King Hamlin'."
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"There’s a sense of grim inevitability saturating 'King Hamlin', a bleak new drama about young men from a deprived neighbourhood, who are drawn into gang culture with predictably horrible results."
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