Benedict Cumberbatch in
HAMLET
(ENCORE)
Wednesday, December 2 at 7pm
$20 Members | $25 Public
Academy Award® nominee Benedict
Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game, Frankenstein at the
National Theatre) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.
Directed by Lyndsey
Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, National Theatre Live will broadcast
this eagerly awaited production live to cinemas.
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. (UK, 2015,
240 min., NR | Dir. Lyndsey
Turner)