Maxine Peake as Hamlet (2015)
Filmed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
March 2015 saw the cinema release of Maxine Peake as Hamlet, the film of Sarah Frankcom’s acclaimed production at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.
The compelling stage-to-screen film, directed by Margaret Williams (Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach, One Man Walking), sees Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything, The Village, Silk) in the title role of Shakespeare’s iconic play, in which Hamlet, consumed by despair, struggles to exact revenge for his father’s murder, with devastating consequences.
GENRE
Stage-to-screen
WRITTEN BY
William Shakespeare
DIRECTOR
Margaret Williams
Sarah Frankcom
CAST
Maxine Peake
John Shrapnel
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Genesius Pictures
PRODUCER
Debbie Gray
Anne Beresford
Maxine Peake as Hamlet (2015)
Filmed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
March 2015 saw the cinema release of Maxine Peake as Hamlet, the film of Sarah Frankcom’s acclaimed production at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.
The compelling stage-to-screen film, directed by Margaret Williams (Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach, One Man Walking), sees Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything, The Village, Silk) in the title role of Shakespeare’s iconic play, in which Hamlet, consumed by despair, struggles to exact revenge for his father’s murder, with devastating consequences.
GENRE
Stage-to-screen
WRITTEN BY
William Shakespeare
DIRECTOR
Margaret Williams
Sarah Frankcom
CAST
Maxine Peake
John Shrapnel
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Genesius Pictures
PRODUCER
Debbie Gray
Anne Beresford
‘A triumph of re-invention… Intimate and intense… Stunningly good.’
THE TIMES
‘Fast, fluent and revelatory’
THE GUARDIAN
