Method to Madness

Synopsis: Documentary. Actors who have played Hamlet, or appeared in productions of the play, speak about the role they have inhabited. Contributors include Simon Russell Beale, Philip Franks, Anton Lesser, Adrian Lester, Michael Maloney, Derek Jacobi, Diana Quick, Samuel West and Susannah York. Critic Sheridan Morley and Shakespeare scholar Russell Jackson also commentate on the play. There are performance excerpts and a comic look at ‘Hamlet, the Musical’; it also features a version of the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy in which all the Hamlets perform. Presented by Stephen Becket.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 2002
Duration: 58 mins

Music: Alex Silverman
Contributor: Adrian Lester; Anton Lesser; Derek Jacobi; Diana Quick; Michael Maloney; Philip Franks; Russell Jackson; Samuel West; Sheridan Morley; Simon Russell Beale; Stephen Beckett; Susannah York

History: First screened at the Warwick Arts Centre on 19 October 2002 at 10am where it opened the Centre’s Shakespeare Day. The London premiere was at the Curzon cinema, Soho 1 November 2002.

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