Hamlet AO5 theatre/film

set in 2000

focus on film

Denmark = corporation

Hamlet 2000 (2000)

shot in a theatre

Hamlet = McKellan

Ham as an actor director

McKellan (2021)

Ham as a woman

ghost = electro kabuki drop

madness = Ophelia taking her clothes off (buried in clothes)

Exchange (2016)

Titanic

political over monarchy

comic

RSC (2025)

Ham mad from the start

Catholic

bare foot, casual clothes = madness

RSC (2009) film

in rehearsal clothes

ghost = shadow against backcloth w/recording

Richard Burton's Hamlet

melodramatic / comic

ghost = wind

1964 film

full text

Hamlet 1948

about Richard Burton's Hamlet

emphasises the complex relationship of Ham and his father

emphasises the theatrical nature of Hamlet

Motive and the Cue, Jack Thorne (2023)

actor muso

minor character = main = tragicomedy

Hamlet fast paced = overwhelming

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Old Vic 2016

‘blood is the theme of this interpretation’

black white and red

Ophelia always present

Bergman 1986

apron / inc. proscenium

Christmas Carol Ghost

Horotio female - in lurvvvvv w/ Ham

Bristol Old Vic 2023 Haieder

one man version

Eddie Izzard

set at a barbecue

LGBTQ
breaking generational cycles

Fat Ham,