RSC Live: Hamlet (2016)

RSC Live: Hamlet (2016)

To be, or not to be, that is the question... 2016-06-10 United Kingdom 180 Min. PG-13
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Overview

Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014) directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. Hamlet played in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon until throughout summer 2016.

Cast

Tanya Moodie is Gertrude
Gertrude
Clarence Smith is Claudius
Ewart James Walters is Ghost / Gravedigger
Ghost / Gravedigger
Cyril Nri is Polonius
Polonius
James Cooney is Rosencrantz
Rosencrantz
Bethan Cullinane is Guildenstern
Guildenstern
Doreene Blackstock is Player Queen
Player Queen