Ruth Negga as Hamlet
Gate Theatre – Dublin, Ireland | 21 September – 27 October 2018
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More images of Ruth Negga as Hamlet at Gate Theater Dublin, (27 Sept-13 Oct 2018)
First images of Ruth Negga as Hamlet (Gate Theater Dublin, 27 Sept-13 Oct 2018)
“Negga is a princely Hamlet, full of gracious entitlement, capricious
and deeply wounded. This is a gruelling performance; three-and-a-half
hours, with Hamlet on stage most of the time, other than a brief respite
in Act Four.Negga combines vulnerability and ruthlessness, her tiny frame
asserting its dominance of the action throughout by theatrical force of
will. She brings a freshness to these oh-so-familiar speeches. “ (x)
Ruth Negga photographed by Tesh for Marie Claire UK (August 2018)
Negga is candid about her frustrations surrounding attitudes towards black and ethnic-minority actors, especially after a particular film or actor wins a slew of awards. ‘People go, great, that’s all sorted, and it drives me fucking mad,’ she says. ‘This is a continuing conversation. We have to move forward with the questions we ask and evolve with our society.’ She also finds it maddening that diversity of opinion is rarely recognised when race is debated. ‘I mean, if you’re a brown woman, it doesn’t mean you have the same thoughts as another brown woman,’ she says. ‘Of course it doesn’t! It’s damaging and diminishing. We have to ask different questions.’
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