hamlet adaptation quotes

Question 1

Goold adaptation 2025
Davison

Answer 1

There is a sense of disequilibrium from the start, a sense of characters trapped by fate, and
eventually sliding, literally, into oblivion

characterised throughout by a feeling of spontaneity, with frequent pauses, hands sometimes flailing as if trying to grasp the right word

Question 2

Goold hamlet adaptation - 2025
Hemming

Answer 2

This Hamlet is not containable — he’s deeply damaged, unhinged by grief, his bearings lost, tormented by visions of heaven and hell.