Laertes and Claudius tumble down the deck and out of sight, one by one, leaving only the dying Hamlet, cradled by his friend Horatio. It is an impressively clutter-free death spree, which ensures ...

Here we have Kenneth Branagh playing Laertes alongside Frances Barber's Ophelia. Kenneth Branagh has played Hamlet on multiple occasions. The experience of playing Laertes gave him the opportunity ...

such as moving Hamlet’s famous soliloquy or cutting Gertrude’s speech about the willow tree. Some things work better than others, some are clumsy or even nonsensical (Laertes setting off ...

Pictured here you can see Hamlet and Ophelia sat in front of the player’s stage, upon which the play-within-a-play was performed. The audience watched Ophelia and Laertes sing a duet.

"It’s amazing to see what a teenager’s mind can do with Shakespeare’s stories," said CHS Shakespeare Festival advisor & ...

When you get down to it, that’s the simplicity at the heart of this story: Hamlet’s father dies, and we see how it destroys him; Polonious’ death destroys Laertes and Ophelia. Besides that ...

Lewis Shepherd as Laertes, and Nia Towle as Ophelia. Over the years, actors have confided that preparing to play Hamlet is like training for the Olympics. “I think it’s, it’s certainly ...