Dominic Dromgoole and Bill Buckhurst’s critically acclaimed production of Hamlet stops off at the Globe as part of a national tour.

Learning of the his father’s death, Hamlet comes home to find his uncle married to his mother and installed on the Danish throne. At night, the ghost of the old king demands that Hamlet avenge his ‘foul and most unnatural murder’.

Hamlet encompasses political intrigue and sexual obsession, philosophical reflection and violent action, tragic depth and wild humour.

Lasting only two-and-a-half hours a handful of players will perform Shakespeare’s ‘poem unlimited’, a colossus in the story of the English language and the fullest expression of Shakespeare’s genius.