Tony Award winner Sonia Friedman is producing. The casting had been rumored previously, but was confirmed today by the Barbican as it announced its lineup for the 2014-2015 season. The Sherlock star will play the eponymous Shakespeare character in a stage run at the Barbican Theatre for 12 weeks beginning in August 2015. He at one point wears a hoodie and for most of the play is dressed like a guy from the ‘hood - as are his mates.Benedict Cumberbatch will go from playing a high-functioning sociopath to a troubled Danish prince next summer in a West End production of Hamlet.
In this environment, the 39-year-old British film and television star works some of his most famous roles into the DNA of a very modern prince. The three-hour-long production directed by Lyndsey Turner at the Barbican Theatre is set for the first half in a palace that looks more like Downton Abbey than Elsinore, while in the second half the same set has been ravaged by war.
It is “Hamlet,” but not in the brooding Laurence Olivier or Richard Burton tradition. REUTERS/Johan Persson/Handout via ReutersĮver since the 12-week run was announced a year ago and sold out in record time for a London stage show, people have been wondering if the production, which began previews on Aug 5 and officially opened on Tuesday, was going to be a Cumberbatch fest or a serious “Hamlet”. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch performs in Director Lyndsey Turner's production of Hamlet at the Barbican, in London, August 4, 2015, in this handout picture and released August 8, 2015.
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