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To Be or Not to Be. Also, What Are We Drinking?
Riz Ahmed's Hamlet sets Shakespeare's tragedy inside London's South Asian community, keeps the original language almost entirely intact, and puts the most famous soliloquy in theatre history inside a car cutting through London traffic. That choice alone earns two hours of your time.
The story tracks the original closely. Uncle kills father, takes the business, marries the widow, and the ghost shows up to confirm what Hamlet already suspects. What makes this version land is that Riz Ahmed is good enough to carry Shakespeare's archaic syntax on pure performance. Richard Crouse makes the same…
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