The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Making smaller moments grow in stature and meaning
Jumbo’s Hamlet is magnetic – a complicated combination of vulnerability, intelligence, and deep damage by grief, writes KATHERINE M GRAHAM
Jonathan Livingstone as Horatio and Cush Jumbo as Hamlet
[Helen Murray]
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Hamlet
Young Vic
GREG HERSOV’S Young Vic production of Hamlet is a powerful piece of theatre that centres and excavates Shakespeare’s engagement with grief and family.
This is not a production concerned with affairs of the state — it is a production that ends with Jonathan Livingstone’s Horatio weeping onstage, with Fortinbras nowhere to be found.
At the heart of Hersov’s pandemic-delayed piece is Cush Jumbo, the latest to join the list of women who have played Shakespeare’s Danish prince. Jumbo was announced as the lead back in 2019 and her performance is well worth the wait.
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