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.

Interview with Rory Kinnear

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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Interview with Rory Kinnear

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