RSC Live: Hamlet 8 years old

To be, or not to be, that is the question...

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.

Credits

RSC Live: Hamlet Cast

Name	Character
Cyril Nri He was 55, now 63 years old	as Polonius
Tanya Moodie	as Gertrude
Ewart James Walters	as Ghost / Gravedigger

RSC Live: Hamlet Crew

Name	Department