Royal Shakespeare Company Hamlet 2016 Hamlet has the world at his feet Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad Then word reaches him that his father is dead Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality Simon Godwin The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014 directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeares searing tragedy As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world