Hamlet ~ Shakespearean Film Adaptation

Following the success of our Dickens’ Film & Food nights, we present a season of Shakespeare on film. We’ve selected our films using a recent Guardian ranking of ‘Best Shakespeare Films’ – and a themed meal will be part of your ticket.

Hamlet (1964 (Russian)(subtitled) Grigori Kozintsev
” Forget your Oliviers and your Branaghs: the greatest cinematic Dane was Russian. As well as being the prince of Soviet actors, Innokenti Smoktunovsky was a Red Army hero who spent time in Stalin’s gulag, and his boyish, bewildered Hamlet knows only too well what it’s like to be crushed by the machine. Manoeuvring the camera around a warren of suffocating spaces, director Grigori Kozintsev makes the tragedy into a parable of power and powerlessness.” Guardian

Menu: Danish Delicacies

Warm Danish blue cheese, pear and walnut tart
served with a salad garnish

Frikadeller- Danish meatballs in traditional brown gravy
served with a potato and herb bake and seasonal vegetables

Droemmekage- (Danish dream cake) caramelised coconut believed to have originated in of Nordjylland
served with cream or custard

Vegetarian options available

Film 145 min, certificate U

Prices
Adult ticket £25
Friend of the Old Laundry £23