New screening added on 21 Apr

Catch this acclaimed theatre production on screen!

“Benedict Cumberbatch is a blazing five-star Hamlet.” - Daily Telegraph

Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock; The Imitation Game; Frankenstein, staged at the National Theatre) takes on the title role in Shakespeare’s great tragedy, directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica), produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, and filmed live at the Barbican.

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.

(3hrs 20mins, including 20min intermission)