Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet
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.
Ophelia
Ophelia comes of age as lady-in-waiting for Queen Gertrude, and her singular spirit captures Hamlet's affections. As lust and betrayal threaten the kingdom, Ophelia finds herself trapped between true love and controlling her own destiny.
Hamlet
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
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Robin Lough
Director
Clarence Smith
as
Claudius
Paapa Essiedu
as
Hamlet
Natalie Simpson
as
Ophelia
Cyril Nri
as
Polonius
Clive Owen
as
Claudius
Naomi Watts
as
Gertrude / Mechtild
Tom Felton
as
Laertes
Daisy Ridley
as
Ophelia
Tony Richardson
Director
Anthony Hopkins
as
Claudius
Judy Parfitt
as
Gertrude
Gordon Jackson
as
Horatio
Roger Lloyd Pack
as
Reynaldo
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