RSC Live: Hamlet (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 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.
Director: Simon Godwin
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Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet |
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Tanya Moodie as Gertrude |
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Clarence Smith as Claudius |
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Ewart James Walters as Ghost / Gravedigger |
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Cyril Nri as Polonius |
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Marcus Griffiths as Laertes |
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Natalie Simpson as Ophelia |
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Hiran Abeysekera as Horatio |
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James Cooney as Rosencrantz |
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Bethan Cullinane as Guildenstern |
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Romayne Andrews as Osric |
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Doreene Blackstock as Player Queen |
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Eke Chukwu as Voltemand |
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Marième Diouf as Cornelia |
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Kevin Golding as Barnardo / Player King |
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Byron Mondahl as Professor of Wittenberg / English Ambassador |
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Theo Ogundipe as Marcellus / Fortinbras |
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Temi Wilkey as Francisca / Gravedigger's Assistant |
| Writing | William Shakespeare | Author |
| Directing | Simon Godwin | Director |
