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Hamlet

By William Shakespeare

RSC 

Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 25th June 1980

Theatre Royal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne February-April 1981

Aldwych Theatre, London 15th September 1981


Pennington’s personality, Evening News 14th March 1980
Keeping up the suspense in Hamlet, Drama, 2nd Quarter  1981
A moment for the scholarly Prince, The Times 2nd July 1980
Tackling the actor’s Everest, Stage 3rd July 1980
The latest Prince, Sunday Telegraph July 1980
A new Hamlet - with the looks of Prince Charming, The Standard 9th September 1981
Sweet Reason, What’s on in London 11th September 1981
Cue for passion, The Guardian 17th September 1981
Triumph of A Student Prince, Standard 18th September 1981

Plays and Players:Model Roles, Daily Telegraph 3rd June 1985
To play the Prince, The Independent 17th March 1989
The role to die for, The Guardian, 31st July 2008, Michael Billington
Stratford
London
Francisco
Michael Fitzgerald
Rolf Saxon
Bernardo
Bille Brown
Richard Cordery
Marcellus
Dennis Clinton
Horatio
Tom Wilkinson
Ghost of Hamlet’s Father
Raymond Westwell
David Waller
Hamlet
Michael Pennington
Claudius
Derek Godfrey
Gertrude
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Voltemand
John Darrell
Cornelius
Sion Tudor-Owen
Polonius
Tony Church
Laertes
John Bowe
Michael Siberry
Ophelia
Carol Royle
Rosencrantz
Hugh Ross
Guildenstern
Gordon Dulieu
Reynaldo
Bille Brown
Raymond Llewellyn
First Player
Bruce Purchase
Player Queen
Michael Siberry
Kilian McKenna
Lucianus
William Armstrong
Rolf Saxon
Prologue
Kilian McKenna
William Armstrong
Fortinbras
Michael Siberry
William Armstrong
Norwegian Captain
Bille Brown
Richard Codery
First Sailor
Michael Fitzgerald
Rolf Saxon
First Gravedigger
Raymond Westwell
David Waller
Second Gravedigger
Dennis Clinton
Priest
William Armstrong
Kilian McKenna
Osric
Hugh Ross
English Ambassador
Bille Brown
Richard Cordery
Ladies
Jo Anderson
Patricia Shakesby
Sara Moore
Soldiers, etc
William Armstrong
Raymond Llewellyn
Michael Fitzgerald
Rolf Saxon
Kilian McKenna
Director
John Barton
Designer
Ralph Koltai

Pennington is one of those rare actors who can store wild secrets behind dreamy eyes…

-Daily Mail

…brings intelligence and understanding to Hamlet’s cruel dilemma

-Guardian

…This, I think, is Hamlet as Shakespeare himself imagined him

-Daily Express

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… so what’s the secret to actors’ memory skills? The Independent, 31st July 2015, Boyd Tonkin