Hamlet " review
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme, and touringConrad Nelson's production for Northern Broadsides is a white-knuckle ride but, if you can keep your grip, it is as physically and spiritually exhilarating as a cross between Alton Towers' wildest ride and Mozart's Requiem. An atmospheric battlements opening, lit only by handheld torches, shifts startlingly to the court where dinner-suited Claudius tinkles a piano while Ophel…