RSC Live: Hamlet
2016Hamlet 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.
Acted in
Paapa Essiedu
as Hamlet
Tanya Moodie
as Gertrude
Clarence Smith
as Claudius
Ewart James Walters
as Ghost / Gravedigger
Cyril Nri
as Polonius
Marcus Griffiths
as Laertes
Natalie Simpson
as Ophelia
Hiran Abeysekera
as Horatio
James Cooney
as Rosencrantz
Bethan Cullinane
as Guildenstern
Romayne Andrews
as Osric
Doreene Blackstock
as Player Queen
Eke Chukwu
as Voltemand
Marième Diouf
as Cornelia
Kevin Golding
as Barnardo / Player King
Byron Mondahl
as Professor of Wittenberg / English Ambassador
Theo Ogundipe
as Marcellus / Fortinbras
Temi Wilkey
as Francisca / Gravedigger's Assistant