L'histoire d’un amour démesuré, secret, entre un frère et sa sœur.

Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.

Vicky Lowndes (Jean Arthur) perd son mari Bill Cardew (Fred MacMurray) dans un accident de bateau. Porté disparu, on le croit noyé. Le meilleur ami de Bill, Henry Lowndes (Melvyn Douglas), son éditeur associé, réconforte la veuve qui se sent bien seule. Elle l'épouse six mois plus tard. Six mois se passent lorsque Bill réapparaît : il s'est échoué sur une île et a été secouru. Vicky est à présent face à un dilemme...

Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014) directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. Hamlet played in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon until throughout summer 2016.