I t was only February when we headed to Stratford-upon-Avon to review Hamlet, so it comes as quite the surprise to head ...

The safe transfer of power in post-war Western democracies was once a given. The homely Pickfords Removals van outside Number ...

Hamlet Hail to the Thief races through Shakespeare’s 425-year-old tragedy in a swift, tightly focused 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Mystery and menace dominate from the outset, as swirling mist envelopes a hanging scaffold of faceless, grey suits, above ...

Peter Ormerod reviews Hamlet Hail to the Thief, presented by the RSC and Factory International at the Royal Shakespeare ...

Hamlet’s juddering decline is matched elsewhere in a production not short on madness. Paul Hilton gives Claudius a seriously ...

This production is erotic, evocative, lean as a bone and, at a certain point, leaves HAMLET behind entirely. Director Robert ...

Christine [Jones, co-director] describes the show as having a dark obsidian emotional heart and that's what we’re going for.