NT Live / Shakespeare: Hamlet

Director: Robert Hastie

Cast: Hiran Abeysekera (Hamlet), Francesca Mills (Ophelia), Alistair Petrie (Claudius), Geoffrey Streatfeild (Polonius), Ayesha Dharker (Gertrude), Tessa Wong (Horatio), Tom Glenister (Laertes), Hari Mackinnon (Rosencrantz), Joe Bolland (Guildenstern)

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Are you watching closely?

Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one.

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (The Father and the Assassin, Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.

National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director, Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Operation Mincemeat) directs this ‘sharp, stylish and darkly funny’ (All that Dazzles) reimagining.

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Ticket information
Ticket price: 5,100 HUF
For students, pensioners, teachers: 4,500 HUF