by William Shakespeare
A Theatre Passe Muraille Presentation of a Hope in Hell Theatre Co. production
Photo of Raoul Bhaneja| Design and Illustrations by Emily Jung
Toronto stage and screen veteran Raoul Bhaneja strips Shakespeare’s most iconic tragedy down to its raw, beating heart — no sets, no costumes, no safety net. Just an actor, the text, and you. Award-winning and internationally acclaimed, Hamlet (solo) directed by Robert Ross Parker (Disgraced – Mirvish, Apples in Winter – Here For Now) has electrified audiences from the Arctic Circle to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. With seventeen characters coursing through a single body, Bhaneja doesn’t just perform Hamlet — he becomes it.
20 years after Hamlet (solo)’s world premiere at Theatre Passe Muraille, these select fundraising performances will support The Andy McKim Endowment Fund for New Works, ensuring the continued growth of artists and the development of new works at Theatre Passe Muraille now and into the future.
Winner of the 2022 Best Actor Award at New York’s United Solo Festival, the world’s largest festival of solo work; winner of the Montreal English Critic’s Circle Award for Best Visiting Production; and nominee for the Calgary Critic’s Award for Best Solo Show, Hamlet (solo) has been performed over 150 times in 25 different cities since its debut in 2006.
Show Dates
Playing Nov. 6 – 8, 2026
Running Time: 2 hrs 10 min including intermission (15 min intermission)
Location
Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson Ave. | Backspace
Tickets
$102.25 fee
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Relaxed Environment
Low lighting
Depictions of suicide, graphic violence, murder, depression, and themes of incest
Credits
Playwright
William Shakespeare
Direction
Robert Ross Parker
Performed by
Raoul Bhaneja
A five time Canadian Screen Award nominee, Raoul is a graduate of The National Theatre School of Canada who has spent the last thirty years amassing over 150 film and television credits and has performed in theatres from coast to coast to coast. His most recent on screen credits include three seasons of The Trades (Crave), two seasons of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (Paramount+) and Signal One, a feature film opposite Dennis Quaid, David Thewliss, Josh Hutcherson and Isabelle Fuhrman. Other on screen credits include Miss Sloane, Grey’s Anatomy, Blindspot, Clarice, Murdoch Mysteries and over two hundred and fifty episodes of Train 48 (Global). Hope and Hell Theatre Co., which he founded with his wife Birgitte Solem has toured nationally and internationally with Sad Surgeon, Hamlet (solo), Life, Death and The Blues (with Theatre Passe Muraille), Disgraced (with Mirvish and The Citadel), Vietgone (with Fu-GEN and RMTC) and Apples in Winter (with Here For Now and Coal Mine Theatre). A two time Dora Award nominee he made his return to the Toronto stage after a long absence in the Soulpepper Theatre production of The Seagull, the final production directed by the late Daniel Brooks. As a musician he has released seven albums, has toured across Canada with his band Raoul and The Big Time and his jazz duo Blue Standard.
Photo by Matthew Bennett Photography
Robert is a NYC based Canadian director, actor, and writer. He is the co-founder of the Obie winning Vampire Cowboys and has directed all of their productions including Soul Samurai, Alice in Slasherland, Fight Girl/Battle World, The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, and Revenge Song (Geffen Playhouse and Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Other directing credits include Mothers (Playwrights Realm) Vietgone (RMTC) Disgraced (Mirvish, Citadel) Fast Company (Ensemble Studio Theatre) A Christmas Story, Godspell and The Slasherland Project (RedHouse Arts) the world premier of She Kills Monsters (The Flea). And -of course- Hamlet {solo} most recently Soulpepper, The Shakespeare Company, and United Solo in NYC, but various venues in various cities and countries since its premiere at TPM twenty years ago. Recently he directed the Canadian premiere of Jennifer Fawcett’s Apples in Winter (Here for Now, Coal Mine in 2027). Robert is the author of The Great Pumpkin Rescue with illustrator Rebecca Scheckman.
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