Rory Kinnear is one of the best Hamlets I have seen (pictured). Hamlet is playing at the National Theatre and goes on tour after that. Similar to Mark Rylance's 1980s RSC Hamlet in some ways, I thought. Hamlet is a very likable fellow in both. He is also, like Rylance's, very funny at times. The soliloquies by Hamlet are breath-taking in this production, quite astonishing - Kinnear is outstanding.
The show is in modern dress and the director suggests that Ophelia is murdered in this version. Not sure about that, but it fits with the kind of political system that this production depicts. Go and see it.
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