Amazon Prime Video and National Theatre collaborated on four productions to be broadcast exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in the UK and Ireland from 11 June, including HAMLET.
★★★★
Mr Cumberbatch gives a reminder that he is a top-rank stage actor
Daily Mail
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
★★★★
He is a blazing five star Hamlet. The wait has not been in vain. Praise be.
The Daily Telegraph
Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds, Sian Brooke and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith in Shakespeare’s famous tragedy filmed live in London by the National Theatre.
Filmed by National Theatre Live
Presented by Sonia Freidman Productions
★★★★★
A thrillingly epic production
Metro
CAST
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH – Hamlet
BARRY AIRD – Soldier
EDDIE ARNOLD – Danish Captain/Servant
LEO BILL – Horatio
SIAN BROOKE – Ophelia
NIGEL CARRINGTON – Servant/Cornelius
RUAIRI CONAGHAN – Player King
RUDI DHARMALINGAM – Guildenstern
COLIN HAIGH – Priest/Messenger
PAUL HAM – Official
DIVEEN HENREY – Player Queen/Messenger
ANASTASIA HILLE – Gertrude
CIARÁN HINDS – Claudius
KOBNA HOLDBROOK-SMITH – Laertes
KARL JOHNSON – Ghost of Hamlet's Father
JIM NORTON – Polonius
AMAKA OKAFOR – Official
DANIEL PARR – Barnardo
JAN SHEPHERD – Courtier
MORAG SILLER – Voltemand
MATTHEW STEER – Rosencrantz
SERGO VARES – Fortinbras
DWANE WALCOTT – Marcellus
CREATIVES
LYNDSEY TURNER – Director
ES DEVLIN – Set Designer
KATRINA LINDSAY – Costume Designer
LUKE HALLS – Video Designer
JANE COX – Lighting Designer
CHRISTOPHER SHUTT – Sound Designer
JON HOPKINS – Music
SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI – Movement
BRET YOUNT – Fights