RSC: Hamlet
RSC: Гамлет
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.
Actors
Hamlet
Paapa Essiedu
Horatio
Hiran Abeysekera
Claudius
Clarence Smith
Ophelia
Natalie Simpson
Gertrude
Tanya Moodie
Laertes
Marcus Griffiths
Polonius
Cyril Nri
Crew
Set designer
Paul Wills
Royal Shakespeare Company
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