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