The remix's the thing: how The Rest Is Silence gave Hamlet a fresh beat
Theatre company dreamthinkspeak has cut, spliced, sped up and slowed down Shakespeare's tragedy. But unlike most remixes, this is a pure mashup of a single source textArmand Van Helden did it for Tori Amos. Norman Cook did it for Cornershop. Now dreamthinkspeak has done it for Hamlet. The buzz surrounding the company's The Rest Is Silence, which has just transferred to London's Riverside Studios, is inevitably loude…