Hamlet

Synopsis: A live sound recording of Peter Hall’s production of Hamlet with David Warner in the title role.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Audio
Recording date: 9 Mar 1966

Notes: An extract (III i ‘To be, or not to be...lose the name of action’) may be listened to onsite at the British Library Sound Archive.
General: When the production opened Glenda Jackson took the role of Ophelia.
Reviews: `David Warner’s Hamlet was exceptional. He managed to connect effortlessly and directly with his audience. Tall, gangling and donning an overcoat with a long, red woolly, student scarf, Warner behaved like "a disaffected, mid-sixties teenager, or possibly a rock star" (Sally Beauman, The Royal Shakespeare Company, A History of Ten Decades, 1982), p. 283.

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