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LONDON (Reuters) British band Radiohead are reworking their 2003 album Hail to the Thief to soundtrack a new stage adaptation of Shakespeares Hamlet that will premiere in Manchester in April...
Radioheads sixth studio album, which includes tracks There There and 2+2=5, was recorded following the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. and the subsequent War on Terror, and shares with the Shakespearian tragedy themes of fear and paranoia...
Frontman and songwriter Thom Yorke called the collaboration with directors Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett titled Hamlet Hail to the Thief an interesting and intimidating challenge...
Adapting Hail to The Thief involved pulling its sounds into and out of context, seeing what chimes with the underlying grief and paranoia of Hamlet (and) using the music as a presence in the room, Yorke said in a statement...
Jones said in the same statement that she first had the idea of combining the album and the play shortly after seeing Radiohead during the Hail to the Thief tour in 2003...
