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 ...

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.

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 ...

This crucial point is driven home in The Play’s The Thing: A One-Person Hamlet, for which Fiona Laird (directing) and Mark ...

The first image has been revealed of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke rehearsing Shakespeare adaptation 'Hamlet Hail to the Thief' before its theatre run.