
Paapa Essiedu is a dazzling, all-encompassing prince: RSC’s Hamlet reviewed
TheatreThe Beeb has released Simon Godwin’s Hamlet staged by the RSC in 2016. The director makes one major change and leaves it at that. Elsinore is transposed to a present-day African republic where members of the ruling clan are jockeying for power after the dictator’s death. This chimes with our understanding of geopolitics and lends
