Hamlet

Rory Kinnear performs the first half of the soliloquy 'O that this too too solid flesh...' for the trailer for the Nicholas Hytner's production of Hamlet 2010.

Download a free Hamlet interactive whiteboard resource for your classroom using the link to the left of your screen. This guide accompanies that resource.

A pamphlet about Nicholas Hytner’s production of Hamlet at the National Theatre in 2010, starring Rory Kinnear. The pamphlet contains production images, articles, interviews, and research for the show.

Head of Voice at the National Theatre, Jeannette Nelson works on Hamlet's speech ‘To be, or not to be...' with actor Ferdinand Kingsley. They look at consonants in the speech for structure and indicating Hamlet's thought process.

Head of Voice at the National Theatre, Jeannette Nelson works on Ophelia's speech ‘O, what a noble mind...' with actor Ellie Turner. The look at vowel sound in the speech as the conduit of emotion.

Nicholas Hytner is interviewed by Mark Lawson at a Platform event at the National Theatre. They discuss Hytner’s approach to the play and his interpretation of the text.

Rory Kinnear is interviewed by Matt Wolf at a Platform event at the National Theatre. They discuss Kinnear’s approach to playing the historic part and the process behind creating his Hamlet.

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.

A pamphlet about John Caird’s production of Hamlet at the National Theatre in 2000, starring Simon Russell Beale. The pamphlet contains production images, articles, interviews, points for discussion, suggested activities for classroom work.