>> Tragedy, betrayal, revenge.

Those are some of the themes of most any Shakespearean drama.

But audiences are now getting a twist of the beloved classic hamlet, rather than a stage.

Production creators are giving audiences an earful with an audio adaptation.

Here to explain more about the magic that is Hamlet are Jeremy McCarter adapter of director executive producer and founder of the Make-Believe Association and Daniel Kyree, a Chicago native and star of the new adaptation of Hamlet.

Welcome.

Thanks to you both for joining us.

Good to be here South.

Jeremy, tell us how this works.

Handle it, but make it podcast.

That's right.

Why would we do such a thing a couple of years ago realize that our audience people listen to podcast tend to do so on headphones.

>> And we have the audience between a set of headphones.

We have this special super power that we can do.

We can make them feel that they're inside the main character's head.

>> And I just thought, well, if we can do that, what would be more interesting head to be inside then hamlets, which is family is in those teams play ever written because of the way that Shakespeare puts us inside his mind as he is dealing with his world falling apart around him.

So adaptation found Daniel Carey.

He's going to do it.

And we went.

>> What goes into process of making a project like this visually appealing to an audience without visuals because we're used to seeing this on a stage for sure.

>> We are blessed to have as one of our closest collaborators, Mikhail Fix.

Elisa Tony Award-winning sound designer who has this incredible ability to render worlds that are so vivid.

You think you're seeing them even though all you're doing is listening to the sound effects of these creating and then we have the performances of the actors and the way that they respond to the cues that they're getting from from Isha sound design.

What the response we're getting from early audience is that people feel like they're really in it.

>> Daniel Currie, most folks probably know you from your role on Chicago but why did you want to play this role?

Very different from how we're used to seeing totally.

I mean.

>> Hamlet is one of those.

It's like it's like the movie deck of the acting well dry.

I feel like a lot of actors are in pursuit of what their version of this iconic character can can be.

And it is rife with challenges right the ability to to do your analysis of the tax and what's happening and to translated into living grieving being this I think is something that you just worthy of the challenge.

And so for me, I I was thrilled to another crack at it.

What have you prepare for something like that?

I mean, it requires a world of >> studying and specificity.

And I am lucky enough to have been blessed with such thorough and talented collaborators like Jeremy McCarter Sydney Charles who associate director on this project as mentioned, think 6 ul these are all folks that I can kind of go into a room with bounce ideas off of you know, rely on them to give me kind of guidance and a lot of ways.

My team was my north star for this project.

>> Also as a Chicago you've been on Chicago fire for some time.

And I'm gonna come back to him with the second a promise what what's that been like for you to be able to act in your hometown on a successful series?

Yeah, absolutely incredible.

I mean, you know, I have done a lot of work locally in Chicago on.

>> Many stages across the city and I was actually doing my first round of Hamlet when I was cast on the show, Chicago Fire and so, you know, there is difference, I think and perhaps a platform.

impact in some ways in terms of just like the recognize ability of something like Chicago fire.

And so, of course, I go back to my like, you know, like you're on TV and you know that whole thing.

there's something that's just really >> affirming for me as as an actor because, you know, it's a it can be a tough business and I've been very, very fortunate.

So you're ready for him Let's listen to one of Hamlet's inner monologues that you're talking about.

She would hang on to as increase of appetite had what it fed on.

>> And yet within a month, I mean, think on it.

Frailty by name is woman.

And little month.

>> those shoes were called with which she followed my poor father's body.

I can.

I hope the all he hears why she.

Even she >> Jeremy, of course, have been I don't know how many countless iterations and productions of Hamlet over the years.

What sets this one apart, obviously being that it it's an audio production tour.

>> I mean, even among audio productions of Hamlet of which there have been many as far as we can tell, no one is taking the specific approach, which is to adapt to text so that you are experiencing the entire story from Hamlet own point of view.

So when you put headphones on and you hear things happening, you're hearing as they're happening to end around Hamlet.

That is a completely different way of its a fresh angle.

It coming up the play and we did it.

We obviously were not.

company wanted to make a cool audio story the audience will love.

But also we felt like we can use these tools, the specific tools of podcasting to maybe give people angle on this play that through never had before in 425 years.

That was, you know, the fun part of the challenges.

People who really love Shakespeare.

>> Daniel, on the audience can't physically see you.

But we know you're black, right?

And you said you played Hamlet before.

How do you think was it mean to you to be a black man stepping into this role?

>> I think that it really is opportunity to perhaps myself my characters because I'm like, please The kinds of perhaps expectations that might come up right from people visually seeing me and to just kind of lean in and listen to his story, what he is experiencing and just empathize with his humanity in a way that sometimes I feel because, you know, we are in divisive times.

It's sometimes it's little bit more difficult for us to see another person's point of view, especially when there kind clearer more obvious separations are could between us and so differences yet.

And so and in this case, I think it's just a wonderful opportunity to chess.

Let our imaginations go and feel what we feel from the circumstances that this human person is experiencing.

It's exciting for >> 10 seconds left.

Jeremy McCarter 10th anniversary of Hamilton.

You co-wrote Hamilton.

The Revolution with the creator Lin Manuel Miranda.

When you look back on these 10 years, what do you >> I see it plays a show that had an unbelievable legacy.

I mean, none of us, I think thought 10 years later, we're still be on Broadway or that he would have shifted the culture and all the ways that it shifted.

I mean, I feel unbelievably lucky that I got to have to view on that on that come or accuracy experience that I make