Ewart James Walters

Film version of the RSC's 2012 production of Shakespeare's fast-moving thriller. The action is set in a modern African state in which the tyrant Caesar is about to seize power. (BBC iPlayer)

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.