7.5
The National Theatre Live (NT Live) is truly splendid. As the pre-play puff piece tells us, the series which began as a little experiment over ten years ago has now
Hamlet is inexhaustible, and to lovers of ‘the finest play by the finest playwright’, this is a complex treat.
… (Andrew Scott) takes us through all the phases of these characters but draws us into their moments of triumph or (often) sadness, in a way that is more affecting
… this complex work has managed to forge anger into art.
… complex well-written drama …
… visually engaging and chilling in its implications.
Clarke is indeed mesmerisingly good. She has both the technique to play big and small and the sensitivity to make us really care about her fate in the hands of
… a campaign piece in a way, but one which is so artful that it stands the full test as a piece of drama in its own right.
Kit Harington plays the title role excellently, with appropriate passion and gravitas.