Hamlet

About Hamlet

Tribeca Festival World Premiere 2025 – This revelatory new take on Shakespeare's iconic tragedy drops you inside the fractured mind of the prince. With breathtaking binaural sound design by Tony-Award winner Mikhail Fiksel and starring Daniel Kyri (Chicago Fire), this is Hamlet as you've never heard it.

Publisher

Make-Believe Association

Category

arts · fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Apr 2025

Latest episode

29 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 8 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   29 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ready for More Odysseys?

   Host Jeremy McCarter interviews actors Kareem Bandealy and Kristina Valada-Viars about their roles in the audio drama "Lost Books of the Odyssey."

2. 

   10 Jun 2025

   6. Cast Away Moan

   This episode of Hamlet features Daniel Kyri as Hamlet contemplating a grave, adapted by Jeremy McCarter, exploring themes of mortality and reflection through Shakespeare's iconic play.

3. 

   10 Jun 2025

   5. To My Mother, or Betrayed to Death

   Shakespeare's Hamlet, portrayed by Daniel Kyri, grapples with betrayal and confronts his mother, Gertrude, in this dramatic scene adapted by Jeremy McCarter.

4. 

   10 Jun 2025

   4. Guilty Creatures

   This episode of Hamlet features Daniel Kyri as Hamlet navigating themes of guilt and morality, adapted from William Shakespeare's play.

5. 

   10 Jun 2025

   3. Bounded

   This episode of Hamlet features Daniel Kyri as Hamlet contemplating the essence of human existence, adapted from William Shakespeare's play and directed by Jeremy McCarter.

6. 

   10 Jun 2025

   2. Bugs and Goblins

   This episode presents a dramatic reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 2, exploring themes of madness and deception through compelling performances by Daniel Kyri, Ayanna Bria Bakari, and a full cast.

7. 

   10 Jun 2025

   1. Now Hamlet Hear

   This episode of Hamlet features Daniel Kyri as Hamlet, exploring themes of memory and duty in Shakespeare's play, adapted and directed by Jeremy McCarter.

8. 

   22 Apr 2025

   Trailer

   Tribeca Festival World Premiere 2025 – This revelatory new take on Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy drops you inside the fractured mind of the prince. With breathtaking binaural sound design by Tony-Award winner Mikhail Fiksel and starring Daniel Kyri, this is Hamlet as you’ve never heard it. Coming in June. Produced by the acclaimed audio storytelling company Make-Believe Association.

Inside a recent episode

Ready for More Odysseys?

Published 29 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I decided to leave town. Partly I did it to save my skin, but mainly, mainly, I needed a new audience. Because the refugees had given me an idea. They kept contradicting each other. They kept saying different things. With one exception, they all agreed on what happened to the soldiers. All dead or scattered. Father said we're here to live the stories. He beat it into me. But father, what's the point of living a story if nobody hears it? The people who knew what really happened at Troy were dead. meant that there was no story of Troy, or better yet, the story of Troy would be whatever somebody convinced people it was. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

2,064

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

77 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

14

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

84

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