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 Shakespeares 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.
2016
HD
180min
United Kingdom
English
Simon Godwin
Tanya Moodie
Clarence Smith
Paapa Essiedu
Cyril Nri
Ewart James Walters
Marcus Griffiths
Natalie Simpson
Hiran Abeysekera
James Cooney
murder
betrayal
ghost
live performance
theater play
indecision
