![]() ![]() It’s a bit Hamlet for Dummies, or The Hamlet Experience. It might be the worst Hamlet I’ve ever seen on stage. I enjoyed it on that level, and it was totally obvious that everyone else in the Barbican did too.īut as a play? As Shakespeare? As Hamlet? This is not good. It’s easy to get the sense that the people we see on TV and in movies aren’t real people, not really, so to see them in the flesh is a powerful thing.Īnd in that sense, in the “oh my god that’s Benedict Cumberbatch!” sense, of course this Hamlet is enjoyable. And there’s no question that there is a thrill to being in the same room as, in the personal presence of an artist whose work you really, really like (even if they never know it’s you watching). And there’s nothing wrong with that, if that’s what thrills you. Everyone is buying a ticket to see Benedict Cumberbatch. Not that anyone is buying a ticket to see a four-hundred-year-old play about a mopey prince, of course. I state all that only to give you an idea, in case you’re not aware, of the frenzy this show has generated it’s the fastest sellout in the history of the British stage. who had somehow managed to get tickets last year ended up not being able to make the trip over, and her bad luck became my good luck. But, astonishingly, a friend of a sister of a friend in the U.S. ![]() I like Cumberbatch a lot, but not enough to camp out. I hadn’t bothered trying to get tickets because it sold out instantly as soon as the show went on sale a year ago, and pretty much the only way to get one at this point is to camp out overnight at the theatre in the hopes of snagging either a returned ticket (as if anyone is returning these tickets) or one of the handful of £10 tickets the Barbican releases each morning. I attended a preview performance of Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, at the Barbican in London on Thursday night. ![]()
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