Film

RSC Live: Hamlet

2016 · 3h · Drama

To be, or not to be, that is the question...

IMDb

7.4

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.

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

Eke Chukwu

Voltemand

Marième Diouf

Cornelia

Kevin Golding

Barnardo / Player King

Byron Mondahl

Professor of Wittenberg / English Ambassador

• Simon GodwinDirector

Cinema Trailer | Hamlet | Royal Shakespeare Company

Release date

June 10, 2016

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

3h

Rated

PG

Genres

Drama

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