Hamlet review - Brummie Hamlet and the shredded script (Emily Bascombe, The Holy Cross School)

The recent performance of Hamlet at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse had no method to it’s madness. A gloomy Hamlet trudges around the stage in his Doc Martins whilst sardonically singing The Smiths, making many cringe worthy and juvenile attempts to be edgy which could not go unnoticed. For me, the main flaw in this production was that it was void of the central theme of a gradual descent into madness - this is only impactful when the characters go from zero to ten, however, in this production