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Hamlet

Opening Date: 5 September 2000
Theatre: Lyttleton.

"There are spotlit figures in what look like upright coffins, who emerge to bring Elsinore to life. At the close of the play, Sylvester Morand's ashen ghost reappears in a cross-like blaze of blue light and the characters return to their coffins. Between these two action points, the stage is piled with trunks and packing-cases, as if this equipment emphasised the impermanence of Elsinore existence, with all its comings and goings." Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard,6.9.00

William Shakespeare Playwright
National Theatre Theatre company
John Caird Director
Tim Hatley Designer
Paul Pyant Lighting
Christopher Shutt Sound
Simon Day Horatio
Simon Russel Beale Hamlet
Guy Lancaster Laertes
Christopher Staines Rosencrantz
Paul Bazely Guildenstern
Michael Wildman Osric
Martin Chamberlain Marcellus
Ken Oxtoby Barnardo
Edward Gower Francisco/Reynaldo
Sara Kestelman Gertrude
Cathryn Bradshaw Ophelia
Sylvester Morand Ghost
Denis Quilley Polonius/Grave-Digger
Peter McEnery Claudius
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