Paapa Essiedu played Hamlet when this production premiered in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon in 2016. He then reprised the role for the 2018 UK tour and in Washington DC.
Cast for the 2018 tour
Romayne Andrews - Rosencrantz
Lorna Brown - Gertrude
James Cooney - Horatio
Patrick Elue - Fortinbras / Marcellus / Lucianus
Paapa Essiedu - Hamlet
Kevin N Golding - Bernardo / Priest / Player King
Tracy-Anne Green - Player 1 / Francisca / Gravedigger
Maureen Hibbert - Player Queen
Whitney Kehinde - Cornelia / Player 2
Byron Mondahl - Professor of Wittenberg / English Ambassador
Joseph Mydell - Polonius
Mimi Ndiweni - Ophelia
Esther Niles - Osric / Sailor
John Omole - Voltemand
Clarence Smith - Claudius
Buom Tihngang - Laertes
Ewart James Walters - Ghost / Gravedigger
Eleanor Wyld - Guildenstern
Creatives
Director - Simon Godwin
Designer - Paul Wills
Lighting - Paul Anderson
Music - Sola Akingbola
Music Associate - Jon Nicholls
Sound - Christopher Shutt
Movement - Mbulelo Ndabeni
Fights - Kev McCurdy
2018 Tour venues
The play was performed at:
- The Lowry, Salford
- Theatre Royal Plymouth
- Hull New Theatre
- Northern Stage, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Royal & Derngate, Northampton
- Hackney Empire, London
- Kennedy Centre, Washington DC