National Theatre Encore: Hamlet

Screening Dates:
Sun 1 November 1:30pm
Sat 7 November 2:00pm

Please note this screening is a recording of the live broadcast on Thu 15 October.

Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’sSherlock, The Imitation Game, Frankenstein at the National Theatre) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.

Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, National Theatre Live will broadcast this eagerly awaited production live to cinemas.

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.