When tickets for Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet went on sale last year, they sold out in record time.
The Sherlock actor, who will take to the stage in August for the Barbican’s new production, has been pictured for the first time in rehearsals.
Cumberbatch will star alongside Sian Brooke as Ophelia and Ciarán Hinds as Claudius in Lyndsey Turner’s new Shakespeare adaptation.
The Oscar nominated actor has had his eye on the part of the troubled hero for a while: ‘It’s a role I’ve been interested in for… Read the full story