A swashbuckling approach to Shakespeare’s Danish tragedy

This touring production from Icarus Theatre is at least superficially faithful

Nicholas Limm in Hamlet, which is on national tour

Hamlet

Bord Gáis Energy Theatre

Rating: ***

On tour

To be faithful or not to be faithful? That is the question to be considered by anyone who takes on Shakespeare’s signature tragedy, Hamlet, which charts the malign forces of murder and madness that challenge the sovereignty of the kingdom of Denmark.

Something is, indeed, rotten in the state: the king has been killed by his brother, Claudius, and his son Hamlet, true heir ...