Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet
2016·United Kingdom·175 min.
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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.
DirectorSimon Godwin
ScreenwriterWilliam Shakespeare
MusicSola Akingbola
CastPaapa Essiedu·Tanya Moodie·Clarence Smith·Ewart James Walters·Cyril Nri·Marcus Griffiths·Natalie Simpson·Hiran Abeysekera·Bethan Cullinane·Doreene Blackstock·Eke Chukwu·Theo Ogundipe·Temi WilkeyShow all
Original titleRoyal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet (RSC Live: Hamlet)