RSC Live: 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.

Cast

Paapa Essiedu Hamlet Tanya Moodie Gertrude Clarence Smith Claudius

Ewart James Walters Ghost / Gravedigger

Cyril Nri Polonius Marcus Griffiths Laertes Natalie Simpson Ophelia

Hiran Abeysekera Horatio

James Cooney Rosencrantz

Bethan Cullinane Guildenstern

Romayne Andrews Osric

Doreene Blackstock Player Queen

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