Act 3, Scene 2 | Hamlet | Royal Shakespeare Company

Watch the scene from Hamlet in which Hamlet (Paapa Essiedu) confronts Rosencrantz (James Cooney) and Guildenstern (Bethan Cullinane).

[@AngryNewAger]

As a life-long "fan" of Shakespeare, I finally decided to visit Stratford-upon-Avon... and I was fortunate enough (by total chance) to catch this show there! "WOW, I'm watching 'Hamlet' in the birthplace of Shakespeare!" The whole cast was great -- and Paapa Esiedu was absolutely brilliant! Seeing this show has been one of the high points of my life -- thrilling show, fantastic acting, wonderful memory! Love from the USA XXXX

[@irelandaintreal2945]

this was a very high energy, interesting interpretation of the play! i really liked all the actors here.

[@lilu4528]

Hamlet has kind of a Jinx vibe in this. I love it!

[@CerysRobinson]

Oh boy. I have the shivers. I must see more.

[@walterteoh9970]

I'm all shook up too.

[@professorpuddle]

goosebumbs go brrrrrr

[@hds3]

I think “but tis as easy as lying” could handle a longer pause after. It’s so dramatic. 🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@wilsonacero6722]

Genial interpretación, gracias por subirlo.

[@soupman907]

Amazing!! I saw it "live" as well! Just great work guys!!!

[@fightingblindly]

Love the little jerks here mad about this performance when this company has experimented with setting, costumes, and leads before yet somehow a black dude makes this unacceptable. Hell even the way Shakespeare was performed 30-40 years ago was not the way it was performed in bawdy heavily accented Modern English popular in playhouses.

[@tubeyrich]

"somehow a black dude makes this unacceptable": why?

[@stevenyourke7901]

Hamlet is prince of Denmark, not prince of the Zulus! And Rosencrantz is a man - not a woman! This production is a histrionic woke travesty of a great Shakespeare tragedy. This is what happens when the feminists take over the drama departments.

[@jamiethomas6469]

@@stevenyourke7901 there's been female Hamlets for decades calm down

[@stevenyourke7901]

@@jamiethomas6469 And you think that’s alright?

[@jamiethomas6469]

@@stevenyourke7901 it would be boring if they played the play for the same way for 400 years, and artistic re-interpretations keep Shakespeare fresh

[@MFPhoto1]

This production is coming this year to Washington DC.

[@socrappyicoulddie]

Shiiiiiiiiit. I wish I could have seen this, this looks amazing!

[@gampalakirankumar7719]

Best couples

[@davidborn4636]

Fantastic!

[@austinfisher4979]

“Rawr”

[@andrewrankin2827]

Is there a place or space where i can buy this performance in its entirety? In downloadable or dvd form?

[@EdwardsNH]

@@GanzaKaramaga This is only for educational institutions

[@Will2.O]

Where can I find this program for free?

[@nathand4806]

I thought this was excellent

[@walterteoh9970]

Class act

[@joelreigosa]

Powerful

[@NakMuay08]

Wow

[@petertenay1785]

Wjo is the black actor

[@rociorinaldi8312]

Paapa Esiedu.

[@hargow0223]

Pokemon Go?

[@ajdc88]

this is not good

[@karlitos1167]

Its the first time i saw a white person call a black one lord. p.s. im kidding this is a joke

[@BetterThanSinatra]

overacting does not play well when doing Shakespeare.

[@meowmeow5662]

Over acting. Not in line with true human interactions...

[@nanada3444]

bro be for real. ur just racist

[@rociorinaldi8312]

Or a modern version? There are different versions of performing drama... alternative theatre, is another form of interpretation... I loved Alan Rickman's performance, because he was superb... but well, this guy is a good actor too, Paapa... Shakespeare was not so stiff, so structured... he was ahead of his time... and he wrote about all kind of characters. He was very open-minded indeed... I never noticed that he even wrote about his erections provoked by the Dark Lady in some of his sonnets HAHAHAHAA He was a genius hahahaha... He wrote about black characters too, like Othello... I like people who has not any problem of racism or a narrow mind...

[@MichaelWhyte1990]

Rubbish

[@fightingblindly]

Pathetic weak fool you are

[@leonardochirara8486]

I can't recognise Shakespeare in this performance

[@geminikid609]

Why not

[@idontcarei]

african actors in THIS PLAY?? TOTALLY RUINED THE PLAY

[@han5234]

Blimey, it's pretty impressive for one production to ruin a 400 y/o play that's been performed thousands of times.

[@freezingcold4018]

...idk if you're being sarcastic or not but I hope you're being sarcastic lol

[@rociorinaldi8312]

I see a little racism in there? Actors are actors... When I was a child I went to a Ladies school... so all the male roles were performed by girls... and so??? We learned acting... A good actor/actress does not depend on his appearance, but in his acting. If he pretends to be an elephant, or an alien, or a coconut, and he is a great actor, you will believe him he's any of those roles he performes... so if he is a good actor, it doesn't matter. the colour of his skin. He is Hamlet. Of course, if you want to see a more "realistic" performance, you should go to Kronborg Castle, and see the actors there, in the Castle that inspired Shakespeare the setting of Hamlet, and that is called Elsinore in the play... besitos, que estés bien!!! 😉 No puedo entender el racismo...

[@idontcarei]

@@rociorinaldi8312 I KNEW IT ..PEOPLE LIKE U HAVE THE "RACE CARD" UP THEIR SLEEVES ...AT A DROP OF THE HAT THEY R EVEREADY TO USE THAT ....HOW MANY MOVIES /PLAYS R THERE WHERE A BLACK ICON'S ROLE WAS PERFORMED BY A CHINESE OR WHITE GUY ..COME BACK WITH THE ANS FIRST🙄🙄🙄

[@idontcarei]

@@han5234 there was no african in the denmark in 16th century ...so its very funny to show an african in the play ..its just out of the place .hd it bn a white person the show hs such potential that it wd hv bn even better

[@stevenyourke7901]

Oh, Sweet Jesus! Save us from any more “woke” Shakespeare!

[@irelandaintreal2945]

how is this woke?????

[@mockturtlesuppe]

@@irelandaintreal2945Woke is when non-white people exist.

[@idontcarei]

changing the cultural setting ruined this play ...

[@han5234]

In what way?

[@isnotmimi]

Quite a disservice to Shakespeare to say his great work on death, morality, and other themes of human experience is somehow only applicable to Renaissance Denmark. Also, you didn't answer the commenters, you just said the same thing as you did the first time but longer ("Changing the cultural setting ruined this play" Why? "You cannot stage a play set in Denmark to have an African mis en scene" Again, why?) BTW, there is considerable evidence that Shakespeare himself (and/or his sources) based Hamlet on the Scandinavian legend of Amleth, which has a cultural setting quite a far cry from the Renaissance Christian Europe we see in Shakespeare's version.

[@isnotmimi]

@Edmund Spenser There is literally no reason not to set Hamlet on Mars and have it performed by guinea pigs. That doesn't stop people from making more classic productions if they want to. The author is both metaphorically and literally dead and would probably find it funny anyways. Also rofl you really just said "uncultured swine" do you know where that line comes from knowyourmeme(dot)com/memes/uncultured-swine anyways histrionically telling people to "fuck off" is not exactly that convincing as an argumentative device

[@GottaloveMuse1]

@Edmund Spenser Is it your objective to be as pretentious as humanly possible? Shakespeare's plays deal with universal themes, as said. You are yet to explain why setting Hamlet somewhere other than Denmark affects its quality.

[@GottaloveMuse1]

@Edmund Spenser I think you would help yourself if you gave an explanation as to why setting it somewhere other than Denmark affects the quality.

[@iainrobb2076]

Even if it weren't for the egregious ethnic appropriation of the lead role, this still wouldn't be a good performance, not from the guy playing Hamlet (who is way over the top), but from anyone. No feel for the metre from anyone. Shakespeare should not be performed as if it's a melodramatic soap opera.

[@fightingblindly]

Lol shadddaaap

[@iainrobb2076]

@@fightingblindly Nah, you shaddap.

[@HelloGeeklings]

You do realise the prince has gone mad? And yes actually, melodrama was big during the Shakespearean theatre era as having audiences stand in the groundling area for 4 hours meant the melodrama kept them engaged. This production is far closer in acting as it would have been originally

[@iainrobb2076]

@Edmund Spenser The prose sections in Shakespeare follow certain metric procedures, though, just as a lot of early free verse does. It's just that it isn't metre that follows a set pattern. Some of it still requires demotion and promotion of stresses within words, and an ear for the length of phrasing, in order to sound coherent acoustically.

[@iainrobb2076]

@Edmund Spenser This can simply be recited as rhythmic prose, but I'd most likely divide it into units while reading it aloud as follows : KENT: I thought the king had more affected/ the duke of Albany than Cornwall. GLOUCESTER: It did always seem so to us, /but now in the division of the kingdoms,/ it appears not which of the dukes/ he values most./ For equalities are so weighed/ that curiosity in neither/ can make choice of either’s moiety. Now, the difference is, that in a modern performance the lines would just be blurted out at ninety miles an hour without regard for syntactic pauses, so as to be unintelligible to the listener: a lamentable tendecy in modern Shakespeare adaptations that I totally detest. You get the impression that the actors are just rattling the lines out in a overwrought style without any comprehension of what they're performing.