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RSC Live: Hamlet (2016)
Directed by Simon Godwin
“To be, or not to be, that is the question...”
Drama · 3h 00m
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 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
Paapa Essiedu
Hamlet
Tanya Moodie
Gertrude
Clarence Smith
Claudius
Cyril Nri
Polonius
Marcus Griffiths
Laertes
Natalie Simpson
Ophelia
Hiran Abeysekera
Horatio
Bethan Cullinane
Guildenstern
Doreene Blackstock
Player Queen
Crew
- Director
- Simon Godwin
Details
- Release date
- 2016-06-10
- Runtime
- 3h 00m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Royal Shakespeare Company