Black Shakespeare: Paapa Essiedu from Hamlet to Edmund | The Shakespeare blog
Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet) with Yorick’s skull in HAMLET by Shakespeare design: Paul Wills lighting: Paul Anderson director: Simon Godwin ©Donald Cooper/Photostage donald@photostage.co.uk ref/0152
On 13 August it was the last performance of the latest production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. Every production of this play is notable, but particularly this time because Hamlet was played by a man of Ghanaian parentage, Paapa Essiedu, the first black actor to play the part in an RSC production.
He has been universally praised: the Independent commented that…
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