“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts,”
(William Shakespeare, „The Seven Ages Of Man“, excerpt read by Benedict Cumberbatch)
Benedict Cumberbatch jokingly mentioned that “little play” of his in a “little town called London” last week at San Diego Comic-Con. This time next year rehearsals of Lyndsey Turner’s “Hamlet” at The Barbican will be go and the London stage has its Londoner back properly after altering roles with Jonny Lee Miller in Danny Boyle’s 2011 sell-out “Frankenstein” at The National Theatre. “It’s sort of now or never” he says, next year at the age of thirty-nine, having turned down the role only aged seventeen for A levels. With a second chance at hand Cumberbatch prepared to finally play the Prince of Denmark for the past two decades. The actor is now ready to bring his version of Hamlet to a wider audience at The Barbican Theatre in Eastern London with a capacity of 1.600 seats each night. William Shakespeare’s works have been fed to the star of BBC’s “SHERLOCK” throughout his life. Today Cumberbatch’s photograph is pinned on the wall of the Ryan Theatre’s dressing room for the new boys at Harrow School who, like the actor himself back then, take part in a play production of Shakespeare. Harrow celebrates Shakespeare as a beautiful piece of literature to date, it’s a bit traditional one could say.
Images (c) Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, The Guardian, cumberbatchweb.co.uk
In 2011 and 2002 Cumberbatch took the stage of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in a number of Shakespearean plays: “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”, “Romeo and Juliet /As You Like It”, “Oh What A Lovely War” and “Love’s Labour’s Lost”. Additionally to his growing stardom in 2013, he made an appearance as Hamlet’s friend Rosencrantz in Tom Stoppard’s piece of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” for The National Theare’s 50th anniversary. Before bringing Hamlet to life, Benedict will bring Shakespeare’s “Richard III” to the screen in the Horrow Crown Series for BBC Two. Filming is due to the end of 2014. It’s exciting times indeed for us and the actor himself who has without doubt a great passion for William Shakespeare. We, at World According To Benedict, are greatly looking forward to his 12-week-run next year. Good luck on your ticket bookings!
Ticket sale for „Hamlet“ (05.08.2015 to 31.10.2015): Priority online/telephone booking for Barbican Red Members will start tomorrow, Fri 1 Aug. at 10am (BST), tickets prices are £30–£62.50 plus booking fee (£3 booking fee per online transaction, £4 by phone) £10 tickets will be available in 2015: For more information on booking/memberships, visit: http://hamlet.barbican.org.uk/
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Written by freewomenxgrape on 31 July 2014. No comments »
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