RSC Live: Hamlet

RSC Live: Hamlet

180 mins | Drama | June 10, 2016

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.

RSC Live: Hamlet

180 mins | Drama | June 10, 2016

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 (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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Royal Shakespeare Company
Original title RSC Live: Hamlet
Directors Simon Godwin
Writers William Shakespeare

Cast

Paapa Essiedu

as Hamlet

Tanya Moodie

as Gertrude

Clarence Smith

as Claudius

Ewart James Walters

as Ghost / Gravedigger

Cyril Nri

as Polonius

Marcus Griffiths

as Laertes

Natalie Simpson

as Ophelia

Hiran Abeysekera

as Horatio

James Cooney

as Rosencrantz

Bethan Cullinane

as Guildenstern

Romayne Andrews

as Osric

Doreene Blackstock

as Player Queen

Eke Chukwu

as Voltemand

Marième Diouf

as Cornelia

Kevin Golding

as Barnardo / Player King

Byron Mondahl

as Professor of Wittenberg / English Ambassador

Theo Ogundipe

as Marcellus / Fortinbras

Temi Wilkey

as Francisca / Gravedigger's Assistant