Hamlet with Ian McKellen at Theatre Royal Windsor – review
© Marc Brenner Headlines have accompanied every step of the long, pandemic-delayed run-up to the opening of this production of Hamlet. The main one was that at the age of 82, Ian McKellen was about to become the oldest Prince of Denmark the UK has ever seen. He was doing so in a production that was age, colour and gender blind, with Francesca Annis, once McKellen's Juliet, now cast as the ghost of Hamlet's father and an Ophelia in the shape 20-something Alis Wyn Davies. So far, so intriguing. Then bad news began to break. Steven Berkoff, who was due to play Polonius, left the production as ...
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