![]() ![]() It is a pity he could not have been persuaded to do his Hamlet with a top-notch outfit like the Royal Shakespeare Company, or an ace director such as Michael Grandage. Mr Cumberbatch gives a reminder that he is a top-rank stage actor. (two stars) Michael Billington, The Guardian So how did it fare? I’ll start with a few quotes, but whether 2 stars or 4 stars, the critics agreed that Cumberbatch was excellent, the support cast, not.īenedict Cumberbatch is a good, personable Hamlet with a strong line in self-deprecating irony, but he is trapped inside an intellectual ragbag of a production that is full of half-baked ideas. Previews are normally reduced price, and they should be. What happened to rehearsals? While I know that an audience shifts timing and dynamics, much of the rest should have been established in rehearsals. While various luvvies flocked to defend the three week preview period, the consensus was that if the RSC can do previews in three days, and press night after a week, longer is indefensible, especially as all those so-called Barbican previews were full-price. ![]() ![]() ![]() Apparently the previews caused them to move “To be or not to be” from the opening scene to Act III, though still not to the proper place. The reviewers had been bottling up for three weeks for press night, and there’d been much discussion on the press embargo until they had completed a ludicrous THREE WEEKS of previews. We bought tickets last year after literally hours of pressing “Refresh” for online booking. I can’t think of another play that made the front page on at least three newspapers (August 26 th). ![]()
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