Hamlet

Hamlet (2009) is the Royal Shakespeare Company's stage production committed to film — watch online on iFILM. Director Gregory Doran set the play in modern dress, suits and security cameras throughout, keeping every word of Shakespeare's text intact.

David Tennant plays the prince — sharp, fast, genuinely funny in the early scenes, then coiling inward as the play darkens. Patrick Stewart doubles as the Ghost and as Claudius, which makes the confrontations stranger and more loaded than the usual casting allows. The production sold out at Stratford-upon-Avon before the cameras arrived. For anyone who has found stage Shakespeare laborious, Tennant's delivery makes the soliloquies sound like actual thinking.

Stream Hamlet (2009) online on iFILM.