Dir.
director – Lindsey Turner
producer – Sonia Friedman
based on the play by William Shakespeare
music – Jon Hopkins
set design – Es Devlin
costumes – Katrina Lindsay
lighting design – Jane Cox
A NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE/BARBICAN CENTRE/SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODS. production
intl. sales – NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE
BG distributor – BRITISH COUNCIL SOFIA
cast:
Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet), Ciaran Hinds (Claudius), Sian Brooke (Ophelia), Anastasia Hille (Gertrude), Leo Bill (Horatio), Karl Johnson (The Ghost), Jim Norton (Polonius), Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Laertes), Matthew Steer (Rosencrantz), Rudi Dharmalingam (Guildenstern), Sergo Vares (Fortinbras)
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge 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.