Hamlet
(William Shakespeare)

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Last modified: Sunday, 14 August, 2016
 

  Friday, 17th March, 1989 (eve)

 Olivier Theatre, London

 Cast:

• Douglas McFerran (Barnado)
• Toby E. Byrne (Francisco)
• David Bamber (Horatio)
• Ian Flintoff (Marcellus)
• David Burke (Ghost of Hamlet's Father)
• John Castle (Claudius)
• Alan Brown (Voltimand)
• Alan White (Cornelius)
• Peter Lindford (Laertes)
• Michael Bryant (Polonius)
• Daniel Day-Lewis (Hamlet)
• Judi Dench (Gertrude)
• Stella Gonet (Ophelia)
• Stephen Rashbrook (Reynaldo)
• Crispin Redman (Rosencrantz)
• Guy Henry (Guildenstern)
• Oliver Ford Davies (Player King)
• Grant Olding/Brian Swanton (Player Queen)
• Peter Searles (Prologue)
• Richard Lawry (Lucianus)
• Mary Chater (player musician)
• Charles Spicer (player musician)
• Fintan McKeown (Fortinbras)
• Harry Waters (Captain to Fortinbras)
• Judith Coke (gentlewoman)
• Jeremy Northam (Osric)
• David Burke (grave-digger)
• Dean Hollingsworth (grave-digger's companion)
• Morris Perry (priest)
• Christopher Armstrong, Melvyn Bedford, Ciaran McIntyre, Peter Nicholas (courtiers, soldiers, servants)

 Directed by Richard Eyre