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RSC Live: Hamlet (2016)
Directed by Simon Godwin
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.
Length 180 minutes
Actors
Tanya Moodie | Cyril Nri | Ewart James Walters | Eke Chukwu | Clarence Smith | Doreene Blackstock | Marcus Griffiths | Paapa Essiedu | Hiran Abeysekera | Marième Diouf | Theo Ogundipe | Natalie Simpson | James Cooney | Bethan Cullinane | Romayne Andrews | Kevin Golding | Byron Mondahl | Temi Wilkey