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Ian McKellen's new Hamlet shows the screen can outdo the stage - Michael Billington by Michael Billington

Sean Mathias has reimagined his 2021 production of the tragedy as a movie, inventively using Windsor's Theatre Royal and capturing McKellen's subtle performance How best to film a stage production? You can, of course, simply have multiple cameras present at a performance as in NT Live. You can recreate the original as in Richard Eyre's fine film of his Almeida version of Ibsen's Ghosts. Or you can reimagine the whole…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AM on February 12, 2024

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