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| Hamlet - Closed 31st July 2004
This new production intends to take a fresh look at the play through contemporary eyes. Trevor Nunn has gathered an ensemble of the best of the country's young acting talent in order to do so; he says, "Something extraordinary happens when the characters who are students in Shakespeare's story are being played by people of student age". Denmark stands on the brink of ware as the map of Europe is being re-drawn by military activity and political intrigue. "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
Hamlet, The Student Prince, is thrown into despair when his recently widowed mother, Gertrude, remarries to his father's brother, Claudius. A terrifying confrontation with his father's ghost reveals to Hamlet that his father was murdered by Claudius, who by his actions won both the crown of Denmark and Hamlet's mother.
Hamlet descends into a spiral of rage, despair, vengeance and self-doubt, even spurning his beloved Ophelia as he plots revenge. |
HAMLET
Old Vic Theatre
Waterloo Road, SE1 8NB.
Nearest Tube: Waterloo.
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Opened April 2004
Closed 31st July 2004
Performance Times:
Monday to Thursday evenings at 7.00pm
Friday and Saturday evenings at 7.30pm
Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2.00pm
Performance length: 3 hours and 30 minutes
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Stalls £47.00
Dress Circle £47.00
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| | What's New | Hamlet Closed 31st July 2004
is the Play by Shakespeare. Directed by Trevor Nunn with designs by John Gunter, Associate costume designer Mark Bouman, lighting designer David Hersey, sound designer Fergus O'Hare, movement by Kate Flatt and original music by Steve Edif. |
Theatre Review | Hamlet Cast: Ben Whishaw as 'Hamlet' (Tuesday to Saturday evenings only), Samantha Whittaker as 'Ophelia', Imogen Stubbs as 'Gertrude', Tom Mannion as 'Claudius' and Nicolas Jones as 'Polonius' along with Jotham Annan, Lewis Barfoot, Edward Hughes, Rory Kinnear, Jack Laskey, Sidney Livingstone, Tom Mison, Samuel Roukin, James Simmons, Kevin Wathen and Al Weaver. For all matinee and Monday evening performances, the role of 'Hamlet' is played by Alex Weaver.
It's not often a Shakespeare play takes London by storm but this Hamlet certainly has. Director Trevor Nunn's thrilling version, staged on a concrete grey set, takes the student Prince back to his youth. The whole cast is young, giving this modern costume production a terrific spring in its step. Ben Whishaw, 23, and barely out of drama school, piles into the part of Hamlet with amazing self-assurance. Desperately thin and reedy-voiced, he sulks about the vast Old Vic stage in a black and woolly hat... [an] unmissable production. Ben Whishaw's gangling, nutty, heartbreak Hamlet should scoop awards galore." The Express
This old, and perhaps over familiar, play suddenly seems wonderfully fresh, urgent and young again." The Daily Telegraph |
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