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Key Productions and Performances
The Tragedy of Hamlet has two great strengths in performance: a sensational and affecting central role and a story with several strands and unexpected developments that holds attention from its very first moments until it ends with an awesome inevitability. The result has been a succession of packed and enthusiastic audiences starting with the play’s earliest years and continuing with growing frequency until the present. It is now a reliable recourse and a constant challenge for all English-speaking theatres and for many others around the world, a staple of many repertoires and a reliable vehicle for launching new companies. After more than four hundred years, Hamlet remains a fixed star in the vast expanse of ever-changing theatrical possibilities. In more recent times, numerous films of Hamlet have been made.