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Luke Thallon (Hamlet) HAMLET RSC 2025 Photography by  Marc Brenner ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HAMLET   Directed by Rupert Goold Overview It's 1912 and on the deck of an ocean liner a Danish King lies dead under a draped flag of his country. Dignified respects are delivered before his body is cast into the dark and squally ocean waters.  Prince Hamlet, while in mourning for his father feels bitter that his mother, Gertrude had hastily married his father's successor, uncle Claudius. Hamlet's gasping speeches convey how deeply incredulous he finds it all. Furthermore, after Horatio shares with him the knowledge that a ghostly apparition had been seen by crewmen, Hamlet is then a witness himself to the ghost of his father and he learns from the spirit's own mouth that the reason he had died was because Claudius had poisioned him. In seeking revenge for his father's murder Hamlet adopts a weird madness, which Polonius (a member of the royal court) thinks is not down to Hamlet's melancho...