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 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.

Rating: 8.25

Cast:

Marième

Diouf

Kevin

Golding

Byron

Mondahl

Theo

Ogundipe

Temi

Wilkey

Paapa

Essiedu

Tanya

Moodie

Clarence

Smith

Ewart

James

Cyril

Nri

Marcus

Griffiths

Natalie

Simpson

Hiran

Abeysekera

James

Cooney

Bethan

Cullinane

Romayne

Andrews

Doreene

Blackstock

Eke

Chukwu

Marième

Diouf

Kevin

Golding

Byron

Mondahl

Theo

Ogundipe

Temi

Wilkey

Paapa

Essiedu

Tanya

Moodie

Clarence

Smith

Ewart

James

Cyril

Nri