NT Live

… worth a visit (NT stuff almost always is), and it has some fine fresh takes, but somehow it doesn’t score a hit, a palpable hit.

… guaranteed to provoke discussion among audiences …

… bold in conception.

… a tribute band playing accurate covers but only serving to remind us of the gap between this and the original.

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.