Godfred, Nana Kruentsi Ogoe

  Presented by The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre , Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. January 01, 2016. Directed by Simon Godwin. Directed for screen by Robin Lough. Designed by Paul Willis. Lighting designed by Pual Anderson. Composed by Sola Akingbola. Fights by Kevin McCurdy. With James Cooney (Rosencrantz), Bethan Cullinane (Guildenstern), Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet), Marcus Griffiths (Laertes), Byron Mondahl (Professor of Wittenberg), Tanya Moodie (Gertrude), Cyril Nri (Polonius), Natalie Sampson (Ophelia), Clarence Smith (Claudius), Ewart James Walters (Ghost/Gravedigger), and others.  Godfred Nana Kruentsi Ogoe Mary Baldwin University Ambiguity and irony dominate the narrative of the RSC’s 2016 production of Hamlet in such a way that the more closely I watch the production, the more I identify certain embedded truths. While Hamlet casts light upon the politics in Denmark, Simon Godwin’s Hamlet with its culturally specific costumes (Kente and Idi-Amin-like

  Rerooting the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC's) 2016  Production   of Hamlet to the Ghanaian Setting:  A Scholarly Review GODFRED, NANA KRUENTSI OGOE Mary Baldwin University, Staunton VA Presented by The Royal Shakespeare Company at Royal Shakespeare Theater, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. January 01, 2016. Directed by Simon Godwin. Directed for screen by Robin Lough. Designed by Paul Willis. Lighting designed by Pual Anderson. Composed by Sola Akingbola. Fights by Kevin McCurdy. With James Cooney (Rosencrantz), Bethan Cullinae (Guildenstern), Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet), Griffiths (Laeters), Byron Mondahl (Professor of Wittenberg), Tanya Moodie (Gertrude), Cyril Nri (Polonius), Natalie Sampson (Ophelia), Clarence Smith (Claudius), Ewart James Walters (Ghost/Gravedigger), and others.                                     (Fig 1: Clarence (Claudius) in Idi-Amin-like military uniform) In Nour El Gazzaz’s review of the RSC 2016 production of Hamlet, they make strong assertions—that “the p