Shakespeare Lives In Film: Hamlet

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Shakespeare Lives in Film is a showcase of six classic adaptations of the Bard’s work. Featuring Laurence Olivier’s Academy Award winning performance as Hamlet and the ground breaking casting of Laurence Fishburne as Othello, the first major cinematic production of the work to cast an African-American in the title role, these landmark performances are not to be missed by fans and neophytes.

Thurs, 21 Apr/ 7.30pm: King Lear (1970)

Fri, 22 Apr/ 7.30pm: Theatre of Blood

Sat, 23 Apr / 3pm: Hamlet (1955)

Sat, 23 Apr / 7.30pm: Macbeth (1971)

Sun, 24 Apr / 3pm: Othello (1995)

Sun, 24 Apr / 7.30pm: All Night Long

Hamlet

Sat, 23 Apr, 3pm

Director: Laurence Olivier
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Basil Sydney, Jean Simmons

1955 \ UK \ 161 min \ In English \ Rating: PG 

Laurence Olivier delivers one of his greatest Shakespearean performances as the lead role in this Academy Award-winning 1948 version of Hamlet. Seldom has the tragic story of the Danish Prince, tortured by his duty to his murdered father and by the guilt and fear he feels at the prospect of revenge, been so brilliantly portrayed in this immortal story of murder, intrigue, madness and despair. 

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