Performance

Venue	Barbican Centre
	Also: Barbican Theatre,Barbican Hall. Guildhall School of Music and Drama Theatre, Cinema1,Cinema2,Gallery, Silk Street Theatre
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	5th August 2015
Opened	25th August 2015
To	31st October 2015
When	Mon-Sat 19:15. Aug 25 at 19:00. Sat Mats 13:30
Barbican Centre (V371)
Current/Future Listings
Listings Archive

Production Changes

Previous details associated with this item and date of change.

Date of change: 10 Aug 15 - T0322742747
Date of change: 15 Jun 15 - T0322742747
Date of change: 5 Aug 14 - T0322742747

Hamlet

Work:: Hamlet (S3502)

Written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness - from overwhelming grief to seething rage - and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.

Author

Shakespeare

Production:: (T0322742747)

Producer	Sonia Friedman Productions
Presented by	The Barbican
Director	Lyndsey Turner
Design	Es Devlin
Costume	Katrina Lindsay
Design	Luke Halls (video)
Lighting	Jane Cox
Music	Jon Hopkins
Sound	Chris Shutt
Director	Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (movement)
Performer	Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet)
Performer	Barry Aird (Soldier)
Performer	Eddie Arnold (Danish Captain / Servant)
Performer	Leo Bill (Horatio)
Performer	Sian Brooke (Ophelia)
Performer	Nigel Carrington (Servant / Cornelius)
Performer	Ruairi Conaghan (Player King)
Performer	Rudi Dharmalingam (Guildenstern)
Performer	Colin Haigh (Priest / Messenger)
Performer	Paul Ham (Official)
Performer	Diveen Henry (Player Queen / Messenger)
Performer	Anastasia Hille (Gertrude)
Performer	Ciaran Hinds (Claudius)
Performer	Kobnna Holdbrook-Smith (Laertes)
Performer	Karl Johnson (Ghost of Hamlet's father)
Performer	Jim Norton (Polonius)
Performer	Amaka Okafor (Official)
Performer	Dan Parr (Barnardo)
Performer	Jan Shepherd (Courtier)
Performer	Morag Siller (Voltemand)
Performer	Matthew Steer (Rosencrantz)
Performer	Sergo Vares (Fortinbras)
Performer	Dwane Walcott (Marcellus)

Listing:: L01399781068

Current production:Work

Reviews

Hamlet review
16Oct15: Benedict Cumberbatch at the Barbican - seen on NTLive at the Odeon Weston-super-Mare

News: Hamlet at the Barbican
11Aug14: Tickets to Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch go on sale

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