Hamlet

Gielgud Theatre, West End and Herodes Atticus, Athens

By William Shakespeare

Starring Stephen Dillane and Michael Pennington

Directed by Peter Hall

Lighting by Joe Atkins

Sound by Paul Arditti

'Visually, it is stunning. A blue-grey back wall with painted clouds creates a vast canopy disappearing skywards. A curve of thick red ropes descends for the interior scenes, giving us a royal household where even the chairs are imprisoned in tight wrappings of lush crushed velvet. It is a setting sick with sexuality but breathlessly bound up by convention. Gina Bellman’s Ophelia is driven mad not just by Hamlet but the confines of being a courtier.'

Louise Doughty, The Daily Mail

http://www.michaelpennington.me.uk/page112.html

https://londontheatrediary.wordpress.com/1994/12/01/hamlet-gielgud-theatre/