A revised version of the Shakespeare play set in turn-of-the-20th-century America, where a prince seeks revenge against his father's killer.
Acting
Campbell Scott's measured, haunted prince anchors every scene.
Production
Gilded Age Manhattan setting feels surprisingly natural.
Writing
Full-text Shakespeare—ambitious and unapologetic.
Director
Campbell Scott
Campbell Scott
Hamlet
Blair Brown
Gertrude
Roscoe Lee Browne
Polonius
LisaGay Hamilton
Ophelia
Jamey Sheridan
Claudius
Marcus Giamatti
Guildenstern
John Benjamin Hickey
Horatio
Michael Imperioli
Rosencrantz
Denis O'Hare
Osric
Christopher Evan Welch
Reynaldo
Byron Jennings
Ghost of Hamlet's Father / First Player
Dan Moran
Gravedigger
Sam Robards
Fortinbras
Roger Guenveur Smith
Laertes
Bill Buell
Bernardo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Campbell Scott and director Eric Simonson filmed this in just 28 days on a shoestring budget, mostly in a historic New York mansion.
The Gilded Age setting draws deliberate parallels to America's own era of industrial corruption and nouveau riche moral rot—basically Hamlet's Denmark with better wallpaper.
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