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Hamlet at National Theatre: the Prince has ADHD in uneven production

3/5 Hiran Abeysekera in Hamlet at the Lyttelton Theatre is a production with plenty of ideas even if it is hit and miss

Evening Standard

‘My wife is an exquisite goddess’: Nick Offerman on love, woodwork and storing gravy in his beard

The Parks and Recreation actor answers your questions on being married to Megan Mullally, visiting Manchester and preparing for the apocalypse

The Guardian - UK

25 Years Later, The Iconic Shakespeare Revenge Epic Gets A Visceral Remix

Riz Ahmed delivers a career-best performance in the visceral crime-thriller remix of Shakespeare's classic tragedy.

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Hamlet review – Giles Terera dives deep into the prince of Denmark’s torment

Justin Audibert’s lucid production is classically considered, with a fine cast making full unsettling use of the intimate space

The Guardian - UK

Hamlet review – one-woman juggling act exposes limits of Eddie Izzard’s acting ability

A marathon achievement for its feat of memory, this performance feels like avant garde cabaret at times

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare played jealous husband in 1598 Ben Jonson drama, scholar’s analysis finds

Exclusive: lecturer finds ‘striking similarities’ between lines in Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour and later Shakespeare works

The Guardian - UK

The film’s the thing: Ian McKellen’s new Hamlet shows the screen can outdo the stage

Sean Mathias has reimagined his 2021 production of Shakespeare’s tragedy as a movie, inventively using Windsor’s Theatre Royal and capturing McKellen’s subtle performance

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Guide to the classics: Shakespeare's Hamlet, the Everest of literature

Although I’m wary of declaring any literary work to be the greatest ever, Shakespeare’s Hamlet would be a frontrunner. It’s often proclaimed to be or voted Shakespeare’s best play (Google it). It has countless film adaptations, is widely referenced, and even gets a homage of sorts in The Simpsons.

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