Hamlet
From: Thursday, 30th September 2010
To: Wednesday, 26 January 2011
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Synopsis
Written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness - from overwhelming grief to seething rage - and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
Our Review:
8 October 2010
Rumours began about three years ago that Nicholas Hytner was planning a production of Hamlet featuring the NT’s rising star, Rory Kinnear. At last, here he is. It has been worth the wait.
Kinnear himself says that Hamlet seems to be different every time he comes on - something he relishes - and he brings a mercurial quality, a mixture of ironic humour, anger, anguish and thoughtful intelligence which clearly chimes well with Hytner’s fresh, detailed approach.
The setting is a modern police state: there isn’t a sword to be seen before the fatal fencing competition in Act V. Denmark’s palace in Vicki Mortimer’s design is grand but a hangover from another period and furnished with incongruously functional desks and comfortable sofas. And everywhere there are armed security guards and the trappings of surveillance, the modern equivalent of Elizabethan policed society. When crafty Polonius (David Calder) warns Opheli...
Latest User Review
Numb bum - 19 February 2011:
One of the most painful evenings I have spent in the theatre. I never "suspnded disbelief" once. The production failed to engage me and much of the time I could barely hear the actors. An utter waste of an evening....
Cast
Rory Kinnear (Hamlet)
Clare Higgins (Gertrude)
David Calder (Polonius)
Patrick Malahide (Claudius)
Ruth Negga (Ophelia)
James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King)
Matthew Barker
Jake Fairbrother
Ferdinand Kingsley
Alex Lanipekun
James Pearse
Saskia Portway
Victor Power
Prasanna Puwanarajah
Nick Sampson
Michael Sheldon
Leo Staar
Zara Tempest-Walters
Giles Terera
Ellie Turner
Creative
Shakespeare (Author)
National Theatre (Producer)
Nicholas Hytner (Director)
Vicki Mortimer (Design)
Jon Clark (Lighting)
Paul Groothuis (Sound)
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