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.

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  Paapa Essiedu

  Hamlet
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  Tanya Moodie

  Gertrude
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  Clarence Smith

  Claudius
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  Cyril Nri

  Polonius
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  Marcus Griffiths

  Laertes
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  Natalie Simpson

  Ophelia
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  Hiran Abeysekera

  Horatio
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  Bethan Cullinane

  Guildenstern
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  Doreene Blackstock

  Player Queen
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  Eke Chukwu

  Voltemand