RSC Live: Hamlet

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Paapa Essiedu

Hamlet

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Tanya Moodie

Gertrude

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Clarence Smith

Claudius

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Ewart James Walters

Ghost / Gravedigger

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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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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Author	William Shakespeare
Directing	Director	Simon Godwin
Department	Role	Name

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