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EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired North American rights to Hamlet, the contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic play, reteaming Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) with director Aneil Karia following ...

In this lecture, Professor Waterman draws on his work in literary recovery research, folklore studies, and creative writing, to explore the origins of the folk tale that has given its name to the ...

It's just a game: Hiran Abeysekera in 'Hamlet' When the lights come up, we’re transported into an enormous room, a banqueting hall of sorts, with a tapestry stretched across the back wall, candled ...

For this is a Hamlet which is not simply in modern dress, but embraces modern sensibilities. We recognise now that grief can manifest itself in many different ways, so our titular prince doesn’t have ...

Hiran Abeysekera brings a manic, impulsive, boyish energy to Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Robert Hastie’s uneven production. It’s the first I’ve seen that implies the 30-year-old prince has ADHD or some ...

If you’ve been keeping score like us, you’d know that Hamlet is one of the most recycled stories in human history. From countless movie adaptations to stage versions to Disney remakes to detective ...

“I think what Hamlet deals with, and it's something that's so resonant in our culture right now, which why I think is all these Hamlet stories being told right now, is the idea of the absent father,” ...

A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet set in a wealthy British Indian family. Hamlet returns home for his father's funeral and is shocked to learn that his uncle Claudius will now marry ...

says, isn’t on the verge of suicide in his “To be or not to be” soliloquy — he’s trying to man up. “It’s not ‘Should I end it all?’” says Ahmed, who speaks the iconic lines in a new “Hamlet” that ...

The actor reteams with Aneil Karia, the director of his Oscar-winning short 'The Long Goodbye,' in a listless update of the classic play. Transposed to modern-day London, where Hamlet belongs to a ...

Telluride: Aneil Karia does an effective job of setting the classic text among South Asian characters in London, but Ahmed's fittingly excessive performance is the star of the show. Whenever a new ...