gael-garcia:

First images of Ruth Negga as Hamlet (Gate Theater Dublin, 27 Sept-13 Oct 2018)

“Negga is a princely Hamlet, full of gracious entitlement, capricious and deeply wounded. This is a gruelling performance; three-and-a-half hours, with Hamlet on stage most of the time, other than a brief respite in Act Four.

Negga combines vulnerability and ruthlessness, her tiny frame asserting its dominance of the action throughout by theatrical force of will. She brings a freshness to these oh-so-familiar speeches. “ (x)