To be or not to be | Cush Jumbo as Hamlet

The highly-anticipated production of Shakespeare’s great tragedy, with Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, The Good Fight) making her Young Vic debut as a new kind of Hamlet. Jumbo reunites with her long-time collaborator, director  Greg  Hersov, to bring us this tale of power, politics and desire. 
In this clip from the Best Seat in Your House broadcast of the show, Cush Jumbo performs one of Shakespeare's most famous speeches: 'To be or not to be', from act 3, scene 1.
🎥: Hamlet (2021). Design - Anna Fleischle, Lighting Design - Aideen Malone, Sound Design - Emma Laxton, Video Design - Nina Dunn. Broadcast project lead - Duncan McLean.
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[@gloriamontgomery6900]

I wish I could find video of this version of Hamlet. The video clips I’ve seen are astounding

[@christielast]

I have never seen this speech been spoken so powerfully.

[@zoarwalker]

Wow that's awesome. I searched KZbin for a woman doing that, and it blew me away. Thank you.

[@ShelaghGRanalli]

The most authentic rendition of this famous soliloquy. Wow! In the moment, the thinking.

[@emiliaissatan]

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die-to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause-there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th'unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.

[@cynthiakitt4975]

Outstanding 🎭❤️🎭

[@timnussey8702]

This is amazing,

[@lia-ekaiteudo6728]

brilliant !

[@Filbi]

Excellent.

[@pphedup]

She's pretty good!

[@erviecole]

❤

[@AntiSocialExtrovert323]

incredible, one of the goats

[@anwarbrown80]

She could perform her own rendition of the Cat in the Hat and it would be worth an Oscar nomination to me.she's so Damn adorable 😍😘

[@YoungVicLondon]

petition to get Cush Jumbo to narrate the Cat in the Hat

[@BigBlackRod]

Is she playing a guy, or is Hamlet been gender-swapped?

[@TomCurran-ou7jq]

Lost her at the first line. Got her back with the second and stayed.

[@emdentaylor1110]

what is her accent supposed to be?

[@officialmkamzeemwatela]

😂

[@Kepha3]

I'm not feeling it.

[@MeltonCulpepper]

Hamlet was thinking out loud to himself, not putting on a performance before an audience... Too dramatic.

[@OliJeffery]

Oh cool let's see your version

[@officialmkamzeemwatela]

I agree

[@RAZmainianDareDevil]

I don't believe a word unfortunately. Over acted

[@TheNetatube]

no good