Shakespeare At The Tobacco Factory, Tobacco Factory Productions

Hamlet turns a new face to every decade. So many elements – realpolitik, madness, sex, murder – are all brought together in a drama that is both a thriller and the profoundest meditation on our human condition.

The choices the play offers director and cast are vast. How old should Hamlet be – eighteen, twenty, or a man in his late thirties? Is he ever truly mad? Was his mother complicit in the murder of his father? Questions like these, and many, many more, ensure that no two productions of this enthralling play will ever be alike.