RSC Live: Hamlet

RSC Live: Hamlet

2016/06/10 • Released • English

Drama
8.0
3h

To be, or not to be, that is the question...

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.

Director : Simon Godwin

Casts
Paapa Essiedu

Paapa Essiedu

Hamlet

Tanya Moodie

Tanya Moodie

Gertrude

Clarence Smith

Clarence Smith

Claudius

Ewart James Walters

Ghost / Gravedigger

Cyril Nri

Cyril Nri

Polonius

Marcus Griffiths

Marcus Griffiths

Laertes

Natalie Simpson

Natalie Simpson

Ophelia

Hiran Abeysekera

Hiran Abeysekera

Horatio

James Cooney

Rosencrantz

Bethan Cullinane

Bethan Cullinane

Guildenstern

Romayne Andrews

Osric

Doreene Blackstock

Doreene Blackstock

Player Queen

Eke Chukwu

Eke Chukwu

Voltemand

Marième Diouf

Cornelia

Kevin Golding

Kevin Golding

Barnardo / Player King

Byron Mondahl

Professor of Wittenberg / English Ambassador

Theo Ogundipe

Theo Ogundipe

Marcellus / Fortinbras

Temi Wilkey

Francisca / Gravedigger's Assistant

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