William Shakespeare: Hamlet - DVD
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- Genre: Drama
- Description: 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 morality in an imperfect world. Inch... an utterly engaging performance by Paapa Essiedu.Inch (The Times) InchThis is a landmark production; Paapa Essiedu is the first black actor to play Hamlet for the RSC in it's 55-year history. He is charismatic, capricious and compelling an impulsive, arresting presence at the heart of a production that reframes the dilemmas in the play by setting it in an unnamed African state.Inch (The Financial Times)
- Title: William Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Format: DVD
- MPAA Rating: NR (Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) film-rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences.)
- Studio: BBC / Opus Arte
- Release Date: 11/18/2016
- Region Code: 0
- Genre: Drama
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- Product Name: William Shakespeare: Hamlet - DVD
- UPC: 809478011644
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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 morality in an imperfect world. Inch... an utterly engaging performance by Paapa Essiedu.Inch (The Times) InchThis is a landmark production; Paapa Essiedu is the first black actor to play Hamlet for the RSC in it's 55-year history. He is charismatic, capricious and compelling an impulsive, arresting presence at the heart of a production that reframes the dilemmas in the play by setting it in an unnamed African state.Inch (The Financial Times)
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