Hamlet

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Play Opened 23 November 2004, Closed 11 December 2004

Albery Theatre St Martin's Lane, London

A young man on the edge. About to be revenged. About to be damned.

The Royal Shakespeare Company present Hamlet with Toby Stephens as 'Hamlet'.

The King of Denmark is dead and has been succeeded by his brother Claudius who has also married Gertrude, the widowed Queen. Hamlet, Gertrude's son, is already distressed by his father's death and the hasty remarriage and when his father's ghost appears to tell him that he had been murdered by Claudius, Hamlet vows revenge.

Polonius, the Lord Chamberlain, whose daughter Ophelia is all but betrothed to Hamlet, believes that his madness is caused by repressed love and sets a trap for them. Spied on by Polonius and Claudius, Hamlet encounters Ophelia and violently rejects her.

"The Royal Shakespeare Company's riveting new Hamlet... Toby Stephens is the most inspiring Hamlet I have seen" The Guardian

"Magnificient... a huge performances... catapults Stephens into the very top league... a remarkable evening" The Daily Mail