Hamlet
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 9, 2011
Closed Jan 21, 2012
Opened Nov 9, 2011
Closed Jan 21, 2012
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After worldwide acclaim in The Queen, Frost/Nixon and The Damned United, Michael Sheen returns to the London stage in the most anticipated performance of his career.
Ian Rickson, a director at the top of his game after his multi-award-winning Jerusalem, gives us his view of Shakespeare's great tragedy.
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Ian Rickson's production of William Shakepeare's, Hamlet, now at the Young Vic, is likely to be divisive. He has chosen to set the play within a secure psychiatric unit. Audience members enter the theatre through a rear entrance and snake through a series of drab institutional corridors peopled by stern orderlies before taking their seats in the auditorium.
As a result, Michael Sheen's performance in the title role becomes very much the focus of the production; everything is filtered through his perceptions. His is a compelling Hamlet, vulnerable yet manic, desperate yet aggressive. He is capable of both great tenderness and unnerving wildness, particularly so in The Mousetrap scene where[...]