This production began performances on 5th August and closed on 31st October 2015.
★★★★
Mr Cumberbatch gives a reminder that he is a top-rank stage actor
Daily Mail
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to revenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
★★★★
He is a blazing five star Hamlet. The wait has not been in vain. Praise be.
The Daily Telegraph
Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.
Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica).
★★★★★
A thrillingly epic production
Metro
CAST
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH – Hamlet
BARRY AIRD – Soldier
EDDIE ARNOLD – Danish Captain/Servant
LEO BILL – Horatio
SIAN BROOKE – Ophelia
NIGEL CARRINGTON – Servant/Cornelius
RUAIRI CONAGHAN – Player King
RUDI DHARMALINGAM – Guildenstern
COLIN HAIGH – Priest/Messenger
PAUL HAM – Official
DIVEEN HENREY – Player Queen/Messenger
ANASTASIA HILLE – Gertrude
CIARÁN HINDS – Claudius
KOBNA HOLDBROOK-SMITH – Laertes
KARL JOHNSON – Ghost of Hamlet's Father
JIM NORTON – Polonius
AMAKA OKAFOR – Official
DANIEL PARR – Barnardo
JAN SHEPHERD – Courtier
MORAG SILLER – Voltemand
MATTHEW STEER – Rosencrantz
SERGO VARES – Fortinbras
DWANE WALCOTT – Marcellus
CREATIVES
LYNDSEY TURNER – Director
ES DEVLIN – Set Designer
KATRINA LINDSAY – Costume Designer
LUKE HALLS – Video
JANE COX – Lighting
CHRISTOPHER SHUTT – Sound
JON HOPKINS – Music
SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI – Movement
BRET YOUNT – Fights