User:Xover/sandbox/Hamlet (2004)
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This page is about the 2004 production. For the original play, see Hamlet.
Hamlet is a 2004 modern-dress production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. It was produced by Trevor Nunn at the Old Vic and starred Ben Whishaw in the title role, Samantha Whittaker as Ophelia, Tom Mannion as Claudius, Rory Kinnear as Laertes, Nicholas Jones as Polonius, and Imogen Stubbs as Gertrude.
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The production received generally positive reviews.
One performance was filmed by the Victoria and Albert Museum for the National Video Archive of Performance, and was one of the recordings screened for Shakespeare's 450th anniversary.