Bibliograph

Hamlet, William Shakespeare ; [stage] director, Simon Godwin ; [stage] producer, Zoë Donegan ; screen director, Robin Lough ; producer [for] Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, John Wyver ; a Royal Shakespeare Company presentation

Type

Label

Hamlet, William Shakespeare ; [stage] director, Simon Godwin ; [stage] producer, Zoë Donegan ; screen director, Robin Lough ; producer [for] Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, John Wyver ; a Royal Shakespeare Company presentation

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Hamlet

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

964525542

resource.otherEventInformation

First performed 12 March 2016 ; recorded at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 8 June 2016

Responsibility statement

William Shakespeare ; [stage] director, Simon Godwin ; [stage] producer, Zoë Donegan ; screen director, Robin Lough ; producer [for] Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, John Wyver ; a Royal Shakespeare Company presentation

Runtime

180

Series statement

Live from Stratford-upon-Avon

Summary

In this reframed version of Shakespeare's play, young Hamlet is a prince from an unnamed African state who 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 certainities 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

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action

Classification