About: Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch
(BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game) takes on the title role of
Shakespeare’s great tragedy.
Now seen by over 750,000 people worldwide, the original 2015
NT Live broadcast returns 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. Directed by Lyndsey Turner
(Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions.