When the Royal Shakespeare Company’s sell-out production of Hamnet transfers to the West End this week, Madeleine Mantock will be called upon to break audiences’ hearts eight times a week. “On matinee days I have six births and two deaths to get through,” she laughs. “Just the six.”
We meet during rehearsals for the transfer of the show, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling 2020 novel, to the Garrick Theatre. Wearing shorts, Birkenstocks and a white shirt, the actor is a bright, funny, vivacious interviewee.
