Hamlet [DVD] / William Shakespeare ; a Royal Shakespeare Company production ; [stage] director, Simon Godwin ; [stage] producer, Zoë Donegan ; screen director, Robin Lough ; screen producer, John Wyver.
Format:
[DVD] /
Publisher:
Opus Arte
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.)
Filmed stage play. "Live from Stratford-upon-Avon"--Container. Originally released as a motion picture in 2016. Liner notes by Ewan Fernie, in English, French, and German. Extra features: Playing Hamlet; director's commentary; cast gallery. Hiran Abeysekera ; Romayne Andrews ; Doreene Blackstock ; Eke Chukwu ; James Cooney ; Bethan Cullinane ; Marième Diouf ; Paapa Essiedu ; Kevin N. Golding ; Marcus Griffiths ; Byron Mondahl ; Tanya Moodie ; Cyril Nri ; Theo Ogundipe ; Natalie Simpson ; Clarence Smith ; Ewart James Walters ; Temi Wilkey. First performed 12 March 2016 ; recorded at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 8 June 2016.
Summary:
In this reframed version of Shakespeare's play, young Hamlet is a prince from an unnamed African state who has the world at his feet, young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home, he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainities smashed, and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order, he faces a stark choice, submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality.
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