William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Hamlet, tragédie en 5 actes

Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet)
Marcus Griffiths (Laertes)
Cyril Nri (Polonius)
Natalie Simpson (Ophelia)
Clarence Smith (Claudius)
Hiran Abeysekera (Horatio)
James Clooney (Rosencrantz)
Bethan Cullinane (Guildenstern)
Simon Godwin, mise en scène

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 released on OA1168D / OABD7167D) 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.