Hamlet -2009- «Secure ◎»

An extensive educational archive was developed alongside the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast, available through the BBC’s Hamlet archive.

Tennant’s Hamlet wears a hoodie. He speaks the soliloquies not as poetry recited to a void, but as desperate, frantic whispers to a friend (or to a bugged room). His famous "To be or not to be" is not a philosophical debate; it is a suicidal man looking into an abyss. When he rages at Ophelia, the violence is palpable. Tennant plays the "antic disposition" (madness) as a genuine nervous breakdown, making the audience question whether he is acting insane or actually losing his mind. hamlet -2009-