The huge windows open on the sea ... [The director] seems to want to lift the court out of history, to a plane on which the psychological themes can be purely explored.

Act and Scene

Credit

Michael Schmidt, The Daily Telegraph

Date

1989

Copyright

©

The world [the production] inhabits is that of confident public life. This Elsinore is not a dream castle ... but a busy centre of Government and social glitter opulently reflected in the tapestries and marble floors.

Act and Scene

Credit

The Times

Date

1965

Copyright

©

[The designer] has set the production in black and white against slatted silvery screens. His white sheepskin costumes belong to no particular point in time ... The play scene brings a splash of vivid colour...

Act and Scene

Credit

Stratford-upon-Avon Herald

Date

1970

Copyright

©

He has set it in Edwardian dress, which suggests the stiff formality of the Elsinore court while also allowing a penetrating, almost Chekhovian exploration of family life.

Act and Scene

Credit

Charles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph

Date

1992

Copyright

©

Jacobean courtiers in grey costumes [assemble] underneath black draped chandeliers which fly in with two great Perspex ballustrated stairways...

Act and Scene

Credit

Michael Coveney, The Financial Times

Date

1984

Copyright

©