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“When 25-year-old Paapa Essiedu played Hamlet in 2016 for the RSC it was the first time since 1961 that the company had showcased a black Hamlet. That’s quite an indictment of a leading national company. The good news is that Essiedu, most recently seen in The Passover at the Kiln and the Convert at the Young Vic and I May Destroy You on the BBC, is a really terrific prince, unexpectedly funny and playful, inclined towards teenage stroppiness and with an artistic bent that pays homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat. Simon Godwin’s production, which offers a Denmark by way of an unnamed African state, is bold and refreshing and while it confirms Essiedu as a real star it is full of insightful, interesting performances from the great Tanya Moodie as Gertrude to Natalie Simpson as a genuinely distressed and distressing Ophelia.”
“Paapa Essiedu plays Hamlet in Simon Godwin’s critically acclaimed 2016 Royal Shakespeare Company production.”
Overview
Sent by the ghost of his father to avenge his brutal death, Hamlet’s mission to expose the truth is a perilous journey of madness, murder and lost love. What will ultimately become of a young man sent to kill?
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Simon Godwin
Director

William Shakespeare
Writer

Sola Akingbola
Composer

Paul Wills
Set Designer

Paul Anderson
Lighting Designer
Cast
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Eleanor Wyld
Guildenstern

Ewart James Walters
Ghost/Gravedigger

Buom Tihngang
Laertes

Clarence Smith
Claudius

John Omole
Voltemand

Esther Niles
Osric/Sailor

Mimi Ndiweni
Ophelia

Joseph Mydell
Polonius

Byron Mondahl
Professor of Wittenberg

Whitney Kehinde
Cornelia/Player 2

Maureen Hibbert
Player Queen
Tracy-Anne Green
Player 1/Francisca/Gravedi

Kevin N Golding
Bernardo/Priest/Player Kin

Paapa Essiedu
Hamlet

Patrick Elue
Fortinbras/Marcellus/Lucia

James Cooney
Horatio

Lorna Brown
Gertrude

Romayne Andrews
Rosencrantz
Date & time
Show ended
From Thu 23 Apr until Sun 23 Aug
Runtime: 3 hrs
Venue
The World Wide Web Earth...? London, UK
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