March 2015 saw the cinema release of Maxine Peake as Hamlet, the film of Sarah Frankcom’s acclaimed production at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.
The compelling stage-to-screen film, directed by Margaret Williams (Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach, One Man Walking), sees Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything, The Village, Silk) in the title role of Shakespeare’s iconic play, in which Hamlet, consumed by despair, struggles to exact revenge for his father’s murder, with devastating consequences.
