This production incorporated modern dress and had a distinctive set. Weighed down with enormous sparkling chandeliers, all of the action was reflected in the glossy black mirror-like floor and the huge full-height mirrors at the back of the stage, which shattered dramatically when Polonius was shot.
Collection reference: RSC/SM/1/2008/HAM1
Starring David Tennant as Hamlet and Patrick Stewart as Claudius and the Ghost.
Director, Gregory Doran ; Designer, Robert Jones ; Composer/arranger, Paul Englishby ; Fight arranger/director, Terry King ; Movement by/movement director, Michael Ashcroft.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2023. Digitized from a copy held by the Royal Shakespeare Company Archive.
Royal Shakespeare Company Archive.