A new play by Jack Thorne lays bare the power of celebrity in the rehearsal room.
Sam Mendes directs Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton, Mark Gatiss
as John Gielgud and Tuppence Middleton
as Elizabeth Taylor in a moving drama about the making of Burton and Gielgud’s Hamlet, which became theatre’s most successful Hamlet
ever.
Why would the most famous movie star in the world choose to do a play which everyone already knows?
Burton, newly married to Taylor, is seen rehearsing for an experimental new version of the great tragedy under John Gielgud’s exacting direction. Despite epic battles between the director and actor, between icon and star, illuminated in Thorne’s stirring backstage drama, the production opens on Broadway to rave reviews and packed houses.
