REVIEWS  

* * * *  The Independent  
"A thrilling performance for Dominic Dromgoole's wonderfully engrossing touring production ... it is intensely touching to have a Hamlet as young, unjaded and open-hearted as the one that McGuire presents to us here. The whole production has a disarming honesty".
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Daily Telegraph
"A stripped down Hamlet that is fast, fresh and lucid ... Joshua McGuire is a young, touchingly vulnerable Hamlet, and delivers the soliloquies with freshness and spontaneity".

The Guardian
"This is a cut about the average piece of picnic Shakespeare, which sends up its simple, but often ingenious, two-planks-and-a-passion-style staging and is driven by a wild humour that suggests madness and laughter are close companions ... a driving, unfussy account of a great play".

Financial Times
"A slick and engaging production, cleverly tuned to outdoor touring locations".

Learning of the king his father’s death, Hamlet comes home to find his uncle married to his mother and installed on the Danish throne. At night, the ghost of the old king demands that Hamlet avenge his ‘foul and most unnatural murder’.

Hamlet encompasses political intrigue and sexual obsession, philosophical reflection and violent action, tragic depth and wild humour.

Lasting only two-and-a-half hours at the Globe or when touring with an Elizabethan-style stage, a handful of players will perform  Shakespeare’s ‘poem unlimited’, a colossus in the story of the English language and the fullest expression of Shakespeare’s genius.