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.

Voice work on ‘To be, or not to be…’

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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