Tag: Hamlet

Reminder: Tonight you can see Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet, at selected Cineplex theatres

Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre, in London.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre, in London.

Popular actor Benedict Cumberbatch has been playing Hamlet at London’s Barbican Theatre since August. The tickets sold out in a flash.

You can see him tonight at 7 p.m. at several Cineplexe theatres in the Montreal area, in a performance that was captured earlier today. If tonight is not convenient, there will be four encore performances in November.

Since Cumberbatch and his Sherlock character are so popular I expected these screenings to sell out long ago, but it seems that tickets are still available. Many Cumberbatch fans are on record as being ready to listen to him read the phonebook, how much better to hear him recite Shakespeare, as the “melancholy Dane”?

Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre in London. Here he's clasing with Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Laertes. (Photo by Johan Persson)sword fighting
There will be swordfighting! Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre in London. Here he’s clashing with Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Laertes. (Photo by Johan Persson)

Evidently, there will be many costume changes, too. Hamlet is brought to us via Britain’s National Theatre Live.

Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet.

Follow this link to buy advance tickets from one of these theatres: Forum, Cavendish, Brossard or Kirkland.