About Royal Shakespeare Company Since founded in 1961, Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has served as one of the most well-established theatre company in the world. Apart from producing stage performances of Shakespeare, RSC has also produced & performed other classics, and new work. Each year, over 1 million visitors join RSC at the Stratford-upon-Avon theatres, in additional to their performances throughout the UK and across the world.In 2016, Broadway Cinema is excited to bring 3 performances:Richard II, The Merchant of Venice & Hamlet to Hong Kong! Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Company Version) - Synopsis Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014) directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare’s searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. Director : Simon Godwin Cast : Paapa Essiedu Screening Info 4th September 2016 (Sunday) / 3:40pm / PALACE ifc 8th October 2016 (Saturday) / 8:00pm / Broadway The ONE Ticketing PALACE ifc / Broadway The ONE : http://www.cinema.com.hk/tc/movie/details/8912