The week in theatre: Hamlet; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard II – review

‘He seems not to be putting his stamp on the part but to be emerging from it’: Luke Thallon as Hamlet. Photograph: Marc Brenner

In an extraordinary week, three of Britain’s most authoritative male directors make Shakespeare quake and reverberate.

Rupert Goold commands the Stratford stage with a maritime Hamlet. A broiling sea. A tilting deck down which bodies slide on a fast chute to hell. Swirling darkness and glaring, blue-tinged light. A mesmeric prince in Luke Thallon.