Almeida Theatre's Hamlet starring Andrew Scott will transfer to the West End this summer

There’s good news for fans struggling to get a ticket for the Almeida’s sold out production of Hamlet: it’s transferring to the West End this summer.

Andrew Scott will reprise his “career-defining performance” as the Danish prince in Robert Icke’s critically acclaimed production for a strictly limited season at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

It will run from June 9 to September 2, with with 300 tickets for £30 available for every performance. Juliet Stevenson, Jessica Brown Findlay, Angus Wright and Peter Wight will also continue to perform in the production.

It mirrors the success of Icke’s Olivier-award winning production of Oresteia, which transferred from the Almeida to the West End’s Trafalgar Studios in 2015. In the last twelve months, Icke has also staged critically-acclaimed adaptations of Schiller’s Mary Stuart and Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, and directed The Red Barn at the National Theatre.

In his four star review of Hamlet, Evening Standard theatre critic Henry Hitchings described the production as “rich and beautiful”, with Icke “alive to the play’s emotional heft” and Scott offering a performance both “engaging and accessible” and “strange and dangerous”.

Tickets go on sale from April 6; atgtickets.com