Creating Elsinore is a short film focusing on the context of the play, the space in which Hamlet exists. It asks key questions about the play's setting and discusses some of the ways the space has been viewed and interpreted on stage at the National Theatre. This film features director Richard Eyre, designer Vicki Mortimer & author Colin Bell.

Creating Elsinore is a short film focusing on the context of the play, the space in which Hamlet exists. It asks key questions about the play's setting and discusses some of the ways the space has been viewed and interpreted on stage at the National Theatre. This film features director Richard Eyre, designer Vicki Mortimer &amp; author Colin Bell.

Creating Elsinore

The National Theatre Company gave it's first ever performance in 1963 of Hamlet, directed by Laurence Olivier and starring Peter O'Toole. Hamlet is one of the most performed, filmed and reinterpreted plays ever written. The Hamlet collection includes interviews with the artists from Nicholas Hytner's 2010 production, Richard Eyre discussing his vision of Elsinore, a background pack to John Caird's 2000 production starring Simon Russell Beale and voice work films that explore key speeches from the play with Jeannette Nelson Head of Voice at the National Theatre.

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