'Hamlet' Screening
6:30pm
Film Screening
Jan
The Early Modern Center invites you to a special screening of The Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2008 production of Hamlet! We will screen the production this Friday, January 30th, at 6:30 PM. Join us in the spectacular Scott Frank screening room (SSMS 2311) to enjoy the show together! See the description of the show below:
The RSC puts a modern spin on Shakespeare’s Hamlet in this filmed-for-television version of their stage production. The Prince of Denmark seeks vengeance after his father is murdered and his mother marries the murderer. David Tennant plays Hamlet as an agitated T-shirt and parka-wearing wreck in a world where the players never escape observation; Patrick Stewart plays a hostile and insensitive Claudius and the Ghost, with Penny Downie as Gertrude.
This event is presented by the Early Modern Center, the Department of Film and Media Studies, and The Public Domain Players.