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Cush Jumbo is a perfect prince, Ben Miles bows out as Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell, while Caryl Churchill gets to the heart of love and loss in under 20 minutes
As a British actress who found fame in the US, starring in The Good Fight, Cush Jumbo now makes a glorious return to our stages.
PATRICK MARMION: Jumbo is best known from TV's American legal dramas The Good Wife and The Good Fight, but she's got oodles of experience in Shakespeare, too.
At long last, the Young Vic has unveiled Cush Jumbo and Greg Hersov's hugely anticipated and much delayed collaboration on Hamlet. Jumbo, familiar to many from the US series The Good Fight, joins the ranks of female actors who have tackled the gargantuan role of the Danish Prince in Shakespeare's great tragedy. In Hersov's abstracted - and often unwieldy - Elsinore, she portrays with charming confidence an increasingly charismatic Hamlet whose masculine pronouns are retained, but whose gender identity is left richly ambiguous.
Youthful Elsinore reflects life in present-day London. Theatre review by Heather Neill